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May 2023 - Visual Studio Blog

Sticky Scroll: Stay in the Right Context

May 18, 2023 May 18, 2023 05/18/23
Leah Tran
When coding in a long file, it’s easy to lose track of the method or block you’re writing in. Or when scrolling through an unfamiliar codebase, it can become disorienting where you are in the code. Sticky Scroll can help you stay in the right context by sticking helpful scopes, including namespaces, classes, methods, loop initialization...

Visual Studio 2022 17.7 Preview 1 is here!

May 17, 2023 May 17, 2023 05/17/23
Taysser Gherfal
Welcome to the Visual Studio Public Preview 1 of version 17.7! This exciting update offers a wide range of productivity enhancements tailored to the diverse needs of developers. Experience the cutting-edge improvements of Visual Studio and discover what lies ahead in this Preview release before it becomes widely available.

Visual Studio 2022 – 17.6 Now Available

May 16, 2023 May 16, 2023 05/16/23
Marian Luparu
In the sprint to the BUILD 2023 conference, we're thrilled to announce the general availability of Visual Studio version 17.6 today. This latest release delivers a range of powerful tools and features designed to empower you in crafting cutting-edge applications and experiences. The user-friendly environment, along with essential features like...

Surround selection experiment

May 11, 2023 May 11, 2023 05/11/23
Mads Kristensen
You want to quickly select some text and surround it with quotation marks. So, you select your text and hit the quotation mark key on your keyboard, only to find that the selected text now has been replaced by a single “. What you hoped would happen was that the selected text would be surrounded by an opening and closing quotation mark like ...

Web API development in Visual Studio 2022

May 1, 2023 May 1, 2023 05/1/23
Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi
In Visual Studio 2022 one of the main scenarios for web developers is creating Web APIs with ASP.NET Core. In the latest preview of Visual Studio 2022, 17.6, we have added a number of updates to be more efficient when developing APIs. In this post we will go over a sample scenario of developing a new API from scratch and point out the new ...