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November 2021 - Visual Studio Blog

Writing extensions just got easier

November 16, 2021 Nov 16, 2021 11/16/21
Mads Kristensen
In collaboration with the open source community, we’re introducing a new toolkit for writing Visual Studio extensions. Extensions used to be difficult to write, but the new toolkit makes it easier than ever. The toolkit consists of brand-new tooling inside Visual Studio as well as new APIs to code against. It’s all included in the free ...

Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 3, and Upcoming Native M1 Processor Support

November 8, 2021 Nov 8, 2021 11/8/21
Jordan Matthiesen
This is an exciting post for us today with several announcements – First, Visual Studio 2022 for Mac Preview 3 is now available with support for the general availability release of .NET 6. Second, our team has been working on native support for the Apple M1 processor, and it will be available soon in a future preview. This post contains ...

Visual Studio 2022 Launch Event Agenda

November 1, 2021 Nov 1, 2021 11/1/21
Andy Sterland
We’re excited to host the Visual Studio 2022 launch event on November 8th. This release is unique: it brings together, the move to 64-bit, new capabilities, and improvements to reliability and performance across your entire developer workflow. The launch event is a celebration of that work, and all the work, our community, and extension