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Visual Studio 2022 Preview is available for download

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46 pointsDavidObando7 comments

Super excited about this!

Our solution is definitely not the biggest, but it's pretty big and we are hoping 64-bit support gives us the uplift we are looking for.

Going to do some testing the moment this finishes installing.

Me too! It can't be any slower than 2019!

I just got done playing around with it a little bit and I cannot see any performance regressions. Solutions load about the same speed as 2019. I did notice it using ~6.5 gigs for a little bit, so definitely taking advantage of more memory.

Will need more time to see if it holds up under continuous usage. The weirdness usually doesnt exhibit itself until I've been raking it over the coals for a few hours.

> Comes with .NET 6.0

So I guess the general release of Visual Studio 2022 will be in November 2021[1] when .NET 6.0 is scheduled for release. Can't believe .NET 7 is scheduled to be released the year after and .NET 8 the year after that.

[1] https://github.com/dotnet/core/blob/main/roadmap.md

So many amazing things coming to the .NET ecosystem, honestly excited for the next decade I'll spend with C#. It's already served me well in the last but .NET Core really supercharged it!

Yep. In the ASP / VBScript days I dipped my toes into that but found it underwhelming.

But now with .NET on Linux, MAUI cross-platform desktop, pushes for open-sourcing, .NET foundation and exceptional performance of ASP Net Core I'm planning to take the U turn and invest in .NET knowledge.

For the kinds of systems I work on, .NET is very appealing. Strong competition for Java and Go, which are great as well.

I see that it says "If you want to upgrade to Visual Studio 2022 but are worried about compatibility, binary compatibility with the C++ runtime will make it painless." I assume that means that this release will have the same binary compatibility that 2015/2017/2019 had? I.e. that this is equivalent to an MSVC v143?

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