We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2022 17.4 is now generally available. This is our first GA release to support Arm64. In addition some of the other prominent features it includes are .NET 7, enterprise support for setup including rollback, and much more detailed below. Thank you for all the feedback you have provided on our previews and previous releases. We strive to use your feedback to focus on what matters the most to keep making Visual Studio great.
To that end, this is a list of your top reported bugs addressed that are part of Visual Studio 2022 17.4. Additionally, here are your feature suggestions shipping in this release.
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- Native ARM Support for Visual Studio, including support for Game Development with C++, Node.js, Win App SDK, Windows SDK, Visual Studio SDK, UWP workload
- Introduce the ability to roll back a Visual Studio Update
- Allow multiple Git repositories to be active at once
- Option to disable peek/preview window for Create Declaration / Definition
- Adding a button to Test Explorer to reset the tests to “Not Run”
- CMake weird test name prefix
- Moving/migrating from preview channel to release channel of Visual Studio 2019 installation
- C++ Android development – gradle
- Feedback on the rollback feature introduced in VS 2022 version 17.4 P1
We welcome your feedback in the threads to this post or through Developer Community. Please continue to share your suggestions for new features or improvements to existing ones and any bugs or issues via report a problem.
.NET 7
.NET 7 is also releasing today and is part of Visual Studio 2022 17.4. Don’t forget to read the announcement. Celebrate and learn about what you can do with .NET 7 at .NET Conf from November 8-10. Over the course of the three days, we provide a wide selection of live sessions that feature speakers from the community and .NET team members. We have sessions streaming 24/7 between day two and three of the conference so everyone can get involved no matter what their time zone. You can ask questions live on Twitter using #dotNETConf, join the fun on Twitch, attend the virtual attendee parties where you can play trivia games and win prizes. Tune in and you’ll likely see many of the speakers using this latest release of Visual Studio 2022.
C++
To find out what’s new for C++ developers, including vcpkg artifacts support and improved Named Return Value Optimization, check out our What’s New for C++ Developers in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4 blog post.
Arm64
This is the first GA release of Visual Studio that natively supports building and debugging Arm64 apps on Arm-based processors. This GA will launch with the following workloads enabled:
This release includes native performance for the Windows SDK (Win UI 2 and UWP) as well as native support for Win App SDK (Win UI 3)! Please check out our latest Arm64 VS blog post for more details.
- .NET desktop development
- NET and web development
- Desktop development with C++
- Universal Windows Platform development
- Visual Studio extension development
- Game development with C++
- js development
We are actively working on MAUI support in our preview channel. Please continue to vote here on the workloads, components, and experiences that are most valuable to you!
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We are happy to announce that Visual Studio 2022 17.4 is now generally available. This is our first GA release to support Arm64. In addition some of the other prominent features it includes are .NET 7, enterprise support for setup including rollback,
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