Microsoft today announced the public preview version 1 of Visual Studio 2022. This is the first time Visual Studio has ever been in a 64-bit version, which means that your development environment will no longer be limited to 4GB of memory. Increased memory support will enable you to debug the largest and most complex solutions.
Microsoft will also bring the following UI changes to VS 2022. The new UX/UI effect with the upcoming Windows 11 will be better.
- The icons have been updated to improve clarity, readability and contrast.
- Cascadia Code, a new fixed-width font, has better readability and supports hyphenation. (If you like, you can try Cascadia Code today!).
- Updated and improved product themes.
- Integration with Accessibility Insights to find accessibility issues early – before they reach your end users.
Microsoft also emphasized that Visual Studio 2022 will fully support .NET 6 and its unified framework for Web, user and mobile applications for Windows and Mac developers.
64-Bit Upgrade
Make full use of all the resources of your computer and scale Visual Studio to the largest projects and complex workloads without running out of memory. You can continue to run and debug 32-bit applications.
Comes with .NET 6
Use .NET 6 and .NET MAUI framework to develop cross-platform and cloud applications. Generate, debug, and test .NET applications in the Linux environment.
The best IntelliCode at the moment
By better understanding the coding context and leveraging the code patterns of nearly half a million open-source repositories, IntelliCode can now automatically complete larger code blocks (up to one entire line at a time).
Microsoft stated that the main purpose of the first preview version of Visual Studio 2022 is to test and adjust the scalability of the new 64-bit platform. The new Visual Studio will make full use of your system resources, which should improve the reliability of the program, especially when using Visual Studio for a long time.
Switching to 64-bit is a big change. Microsoft hopes that developers can use this preview version for project work and find any problems with the software so that they can report to Microsoft for repair before the final version of Visual Studio is released.
Those users who want to download Visual Studio will be able to choose from the Community Edition, Professional Edition and Enterprise Edition. In addition to being free to use, they can also be installed with older versions of Visual Studio, giving testers more flexibility to run which version of Visual Studio at any time.
Although Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1 focuses on 64-bit support, Preview 2 will introduce a large number of new features and other performance improvements. One of the new features introduced with Preview 1 is the code completion feature with IntelliCode, which can be completed based on contextual suggestions. You can see other changes planned by Microsoft in the Visual Studio 2022 roadmap.
If you rely on extensions, this preview version may not be for you. Microsoft has temporarily stopped working on extensions in this preview version while giving partners time to update them so that they can work properly.
For those who use macOS, Microsoft says that the first preview version of Visual Studio 2022 will be available soon. The preview version of macOS will have a new modern UI, but Microsoft still believes that it needs to be improved before it can be confident enough to show it to the public.
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Visual Studio 2022 preview version new features and other improvements:
C++
Visual Studio 2022 will include strong support for C++ workloads, including new productivity features, C++20 tools, and IntelliSense. The new C++20 language features will simplify the management of large codebases, and improved diagnostic methods will make difficult problems easier to debug through templates and concepts.
Microsoft has also integrated support for CMake, Linux and WSL, making it easier for you to create, edit, build and debug cross-platform applications. If you want to upgrade to Visual Studio 2022, but are worried about compatibility issues, binary compatibility with the C++ runtime will give you no worries.
Diagnosis and debugging
The ability to confidently debug your application is at the center of your daily workflow. Visual Studio 2022 will include performance improvements for the core debugger, as well as some additional features, such as flame graphs in the profiler, for better discovery of hot paths, relying on breakpoints for more precise debugging, and integrated anti Compilation experience, which will enable you to step into the code you don’t have native.
Real-time collaboration
Live Share provides new opportunities to collaborate with others, exchange ideas, pair programming, and review code. In Visual Studio 2022, Live Share will introduce integrated text chat, so you can have a quick conversation about your code without any context switching.
You can choose to schedule a recurring session that reuses the same link to simplify collaboration with people you frequently contact. In order to better support Live Share within the organization, Microsoft will also introduce a session policy to define any compliance requirements for collaboration (for example, the read/write terminal should be shareable).
Insight & productivity
The AI IntelliCode engine in Visual Studio continues to get better at seamlessly predicting your next move. Visual Studio 2022 will provide more and deeper integration into your daily workflow, helping you take the right actions at the right time and at the right place.
Asynchronous Collaboration
Visual Studio 2022 will include powerful new support for Git and GitHub. Submitting code, sending pull requests, and merging branches are when “my code becomes our code”. You will notice a lot of built-in logic and checkpoints to guide you through the merge and review process effectively, and it is expected that feedback from colleagues may slow things down. Microsoft’s guiding principle here is to help you have a higher level of confidence in the delivered code.
Improve Code Search
Code search is an integral part of the software development life cycle. Developers use code to search for many reasons: learning from others, sharing code, evaluating the impact of changes when refactoring, investigating issues, or reviewing changes. Microsoft is committed to providing better performance for all these key activities in Visual Studio 2022 to make your work more efficient. You will also be able to search outside the scope of your loading to find what you are looking for, no matter which codebase or repo it is located in.
Update Visual Studio For Mac
Microsoft’s goal for Visual Studio 2022 for Mac is to tailor a modern .NET integrated development environment for Mac and provide your favorite Visual Studio production experience. Microsoft is working hard to migrate Visual Studio for Mac to the native macOS UI, which means it will have better performance and reliability.
This also means that Visual Studio for Mac can take full advantage of all built-in macOS accessibility features. We are updating the menus and terminology of the entire IDE to make Visual Studio more consistent between Mac and Windows. The new Git experience from Visual Studio will also enter Visual Studio for Mac. The first is to introduce the Git Changes tool window.
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