Visual Studio is getting a big update!

2 min readNov 9, 2021

Welcome back! Visual Basic is an awesome code editor that’s used for tons of projects, if you’re new to Visual Studio, check out the link below to learn more:

Visual Studio: IDE and Code Editor for Software Developers and Teams

Visual Studio dev tools & services make app development easy for any developer, on any platform & language. Develop…

visualstudio.microsoft.com

Today, Microsoft has actually released the new version of Visual Studio, Visual Studio 2022, to anyone who wants to use it! They have also posted a release log for this update as well, check out the link below to jump straight to this release log:

Visual Studio 2022 now available

I am really excited to announce that we've reached general availability for Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6, both of…

devblogs.microsoft.com

Let’s talk about some of my favorite features within this new update!

64 Bit Release

One of the biggest improvements to this new version of Visual Studio is that we finally have a 64-bit release, this will allow us to take full advantage of our modern hardware!