Microsoft have recently released preview 2 of their massive IDE Visual Studio 2022. Visual Studio 2022 brings several new features to the table including:
Our 64-bit upgrade
Take advantage of all your computer’s resources to scale Visual Studio to the largest of projects and complex workloads without running out of memory. You can continue to run and debug your 32-bit apps.
Comes with .NET 6
Develop cross-platform apps with C# and .NET MAUI. Build responsive Web UIs with Blazor. Build, debug, and test .NET apps in Linux environments. Use hot reload capabilities across .NET apps. Edit ASP.NET Web pages with Web Live Preview.
Best IntelliCode yet
IntelliCode now automatically completes larger chunks of code, up to a whole line at a time, by understanding your coding context better, and leveraging the wisdom of nearly half a million open source repos’ code patterns.
64 Bit Support
Take advantage of all your computer’s resources to scale Visual Studio to the largest of projects and complex workloads without running out of memory. You can continue to run and debug your 32-bit apps.
C++20 Support
Visual Studio 2022 comes with our latest toolchain for targeting C++20 and is binary-compatible with 2019. Develop cross-platform C++ projects from Windows and leverage the best the ecosystem has to offer.
IntelliCode
IntelliCode now automatically completes larger chunks of code, up to a whole line at a time, by understanding your coding context better, and leveraging the wisdom of nearly half a million open source repos’ code patterns.
.NET 6
Develop cross-platform apps with C# and .NET MAUI. Build responsive Web UIs with Blazor. Build, debug, and test .NET apps in Linux environments. Use hot reload capabilities across .NET apps. Edit ASP.NET Web pages with Web Live Preview.
The Preview 2 release brings several other smaller improvements, including a completely new set of icons for dark and light modes, HotReload improvements for C++ and more. You can download Visual Studio 2022 preview here and you can learn more about the preview and see it in action in the video below.