The official version of Visual Studio 2022 is released: upgrade to 64-bit, support .NET 6 and C++ 20

On November 8, the official version of Visual Studio 2022 was released. The new version comes with a go-live license and is available for production use.

On the basis of Visual Studio 2019, the new version of the integrated development environment provides a lot of improvements, including support for 64-bit, .NET 6 and C++ 20, provides better performance for the core debugger, and in real-time sharing sessions Support text chat.

Scalability, reliability and performance

Visual Studio 2022 is the first 64-bit version of Visual Studio. It can make full use of modern hardware in order to reliably scale to larger and more complex projects. In addition, Visual Studio 2022 also focuses on improving the performance of common scenarios that developers use every day.

Visual Studio 2022 also includes support for 6 , Windows and Mac developers can use it to build Web, client and mobile applications, and provides better support for developing Azure applications.

In addition, Visual Studio 2022 has also updated a series of icons to make it more modern (on the right).

Microsoft today also released the first preview update of Visual Studio 2022 17.1. Microsoft will update it regularly, adding fixes and new features.

Productivity in the editing and debugging cycle

In the official version of Visual Studio 2022, Microsoft focused on enhancing the editing and debugging cycle.

Visual Studio 2022 is equipped with IntelliCode, which is an AI-assisted code companion that allows developers to enter less code and improve efficiency. This means that IntelliCode can complete the entire line of code, and the user can write reliable code only by pressing the Tab key twice. IntelliCode can also find repeated edits and suggest fixes where similar patterns exist in the entire code base.

When the developer completes the changes and debugs the application, the hot reloading for .NET and C++ allows the developer to update the code in real time and immediately view the changes without having to redeploy and start the application.

​In addition, there are other improvements including the debugger and .NET language services, as well as new features, such as web real-time preview and cross-platform testing on Linux.