According to the reports, a few weeks ago, Microsoft launched Visual Studio 2022 for Mac 17.0 Preview 7. The highlights of this version include improved support for Xamarin, continued migration to the native macOS UI, and support for macOS. Crash fix. Now, Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 8, which is gradually making it generally available (GA).
Visual Studio 2022 Preview 8 for Mac is primarily focused on bug fixes and addressing stability issues. Microsoft highlighted four critical issues reported by the community and marked them as fixed in this release.
These issues include keyboard shortcuts not working, blurry text on external monitors crashes in Android Device Manager, and the removal of “Not Supported” tips when developing .NET MAUI projects.
Also included is a fix for a bug where people couldn’t connect to the debugger or when the Exception window opened on a secondary monitor instead of the primary monitor.
Microsoft says this release is a stepping stone in its journey towards “high-quality GA” in Visual Studio 2022 for Mac. Microsoft also stressed that it wants the community to continue to provide feedback in order to provide the best possible development experience through the IDE.