Microsoft announced Visual Studio 2022 back in April this year, and since then the company has released several preview versions of the product for both Windows and macOS. Now it has become known that the official launch of Visual Studio 2022 will take place on 8 November. A preliminary software version marked Release Candidate is already available for download, and will be automatically updated to the stable version after the official launch of the product.

At the same time, Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2022 Preview 5, designed for users who want to be early adopters of new features not available in the stable versions of the application. This version of the product will reportedly become Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 1 after 8 November and can be used as part of the user’s existing license.

As for the innovations, we should mention the appearance of 64-bit version of the IDE, as well as NET 6 and C++20 support. Developers have optimized the operation of some functions and improved performance of diagnostic and debugging tools. Live Share text chat has been integrated and there are some improvements to the IntelliCode model. The macOS version has an updated user interface.