In April, the Microsoft Developer Blog created a lot of anticipation when it announced that a preview version of Visual Studio 2022 would be released this summer. Thankfully, Microsoft didn’t keep us waiting too long, with the release of Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1, the first 64-bit Visual Studio is finally here!

Download address: https://aka.ms/vs2022preview

This release is designed to test and tweak the extensibility of the latest 64-bit release. Currently, the 64-bit version of Visual Studio extends all system resources to improve the reliability of Visual Studio, especially when working with complex solutions or using Visual Studio over a long period of time. In addition, the 64-bit version affects every part of Visual Studio, so the scope of this preview is much larger than in previous previews.

According to Microsoft, Visual Studio 2022 Preview will be installed side by side with earlier versions of Visual Studio and will be free to use in all three versions (Community, Professional, and Enterprise).

The new features in this release are mainly in the following three areas:

  • 64-bit upgrade: Take full advantage of all the resources on your computer and scale Visual Studio to the largest projects and complex workloads without running out of memory. Users can still run and debug 32-bit applications.
  • With.NET 6: Develop cross-platform and cloud applications using the.NET 6 and.NET Maui frameworks. Build, debug, and test.NET applications in a Linux environment.
  • IntelliCode Updates: By better understanding the coding context and leveraging the code patterns of nearly half a million open source repositories, IntelliCode can now automate large blocks of code (up to an entire line at a time).

There is still some work to be done on moving Visual Studio to the 64-bit version. A small number of features in Visual Studio 2019 are not included in Visual Studio 2022 Preview 1. Some extension updates are not available immediately in Visual Studio 2022.

Preview 1 most of the upgrade version associated with 64 – bit support, since the Preview version 2, Microsoft will release more new features and performance improvement, see the Visual Studio roadmap (https://docs.microsoft.com/en)… .

The first preview version of Visual Studio 2022 for Mac is coming soon, according to Microsoft.

Refer to the link: https://devblogs.microsoft.co…