Microsoft releases second preview version of Visual Studio 2022 17.6

#Microsoft has announced the availability of Visual Studio 2022 17.6 Preview 2. In this update, Microsoft has made a number of improvements to increase your productivity, simplify game development, improve .NET mobile development, and provide better enterprise management.

Release Notes

• Removal of Integrated Edge Developer Tools for ASP.NET Web Workloads

C

• In the latest version of the CMake debugger, you can now view the status of currently defined targets and tests and their properties. You can now also view directories in the Local window.
• You can now use the Create Member Function feature to quickly add constructors and equality operators to your classes. When you have a class with fields, three dots will appear under the class name, and hovering over them will display a screwdriver icon. The screwdriver icon pull-down will display suggestions for new member functions. With it you can add a default constructor, constructor with all fields, equality operator and equality operator with all fields.
• HLSL (High Level Shading Language) is a DirectX-specific programming language used for creating shaders in game development and rendering applications. The popular HLSL tool extension by Tim Jones is now available as part of Visual Studio, providing syntax highlighting, statement completion, go to definition, and more! To use the HLSL tools, enable the component in the Game Development in C or Game Development in Unity workload in the Visual Studio installer.
• Improved the performance of Go To and All In One Search for C Symbols.

Microsoft Teams Development Tool (Teams Toolkit)

• Add feature flag "Teams App Configuration Improvements". The preview feature of the Teams Toolkit enables developers to bring their existing on-premises and SaaS applications into Teams with native Teams integration. The functionality of the Teams Toolkit engine is defined in the teamsfxapp.yml file.
• Add a deep link to open the Teams Toolkit directly from the Teams Developer Portal. You can now open Teams projects in the developer portal and edit them in the Teams Toolkit.

Debugging, Diagnostics, and Analysis

Breakpoint Groups

• The Visual Studio debugger now supports breakpoint groups, which can Lets you quickly and easily manage multiple breakpoints in organized groups.
• You can create a new breakpoint group using the "New" drop-down menu in the breakpoint window. To add a breakpoint to an existing group, right-click the breakpoint and select Add to Breakpoint Group. You can also drag and drop breakpoints into the desired group. These breakpoint groups can be enabled, disabled, and deleted. Breakpoints can be toggled individually or in combination as needed.

Memory Tool Insights Sparse Arrays

• The Visual Studio memory analysis tool can now identify and display sparse arrays. You can see a list object with a sparse array under the Insights tab.
• A sparse array is an array filled mostly with zero elements, which can be inefficient in terms of performance and memory usage. Memory analysis tools automatically detect these arrays and show you how much memory is wasted due to these zero values.
• The debugger now supports including .natstepfilter and .natjmc files in a single solution instead of the previous global location. This change allows for more efficient collaboration within teams, as these files can now be treated like any other file in the repository and shared accordingly.

Instrumentation Tools

• Visual Studio Instrumentation tools now support C code, providing improved performance analysis. To access the instrumentation tool, go to Debug > Performance Analyzer and select Instrumentation from the Analyzer window that appears.
• Instrumentation Data View displays a list of functions sorted by longest running time, making it easier to identify potential bottlenecks. Additionally, the Hot Paths section shows the call stack of the most CPU-intensive functions, providing further insight into performance issues.

Profiler Live Graph for .NET on WSL

• The Visual Studio profiling tool now also supports live graphs while collecting from WSL's dotnet-monitor. WSL real-time metrics are available for .NET object allocation, CPU usage, and .NET counter tools.
• When the tool initially collects data from WSL's dotnet-monitor, you can see a live graph of the counter information, and then you can stop the collection and view memory allocations, call trees, functions, collections and other related detailed segment view data.

.NET Object Allocation Tool

• The .NET Object Allocation Tool is now able to import allocations from .NET data providers using the ETL file format. For example, if you have an ETL file obtained from a .NET provider that contains allocation tick events, the tool can execute and display the allocations made in that data.

Git tool enhancements

Staging and committing during build

You can now stage changes and commit staged projects during builds. Committing directly is a risky operation because your files may change, but now you can stage them, verify that your files are correct, and then commit them - all while the build is running.

GitHub Issues and Azure DevOps Work Items - Improved Search

Improved issue and work item integration in commit messages, you can now query for projects that have not been updated recently or are not related to you but belong to Get better search results for projects or repository projects. The search is performed by matching the complete string in the project name. This helps minimize copy-pasting item IDs between the browser and Visual Studio.

Improved Merge Dialog

Updated our merge dialog to make it easier to see how many files are affected and to warn you when conflicts may exist.

Git History Performance Improvements

Significant improvements to our Git history window now loads previous commits faster, allowing you to dig into files and folders faster than before history record!

New Branch and Tag Naming Enhancements

Improvements to the New Branch and New Tag dialog boxes automatically replace spaces with dashes to avoid invalid characters in names.

Enterprise Management

Host and deploy Visual Studio layouts from an intranet

In addition to file sharing, IT admins can now Hosting and deployment layout. Using intranet locations can simplify layout maintenance and improve installation performance, especially for organizations that currently use multiple global network file shares. This solution is currently targeted at IT administrators for remote deployment. Visit the feedback site to see guidance on how to enable this experience, and let us know if there are any features you need missing.

Limit exposure to products available in the installer

We have updated the logic that controls which products are available when you view the Available tab of the Visual Studio installer. You should now have easy access to the current preview and the ability to limit exposure to certain products by disabling channels or disabling available tabs entirely using the new "HideAvailableTab" policy.

If you're interested in trying out the new preview, simply go to the Visual Studio Preview webpage and press "Download Preview." No need to worry about your existing stable Visual Studio installation as the preview versions will be installed side by side so you can switch between them.

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