Visual Studio 2022
 

The next major release of Visual Studio will be faster, more approachable, and more lightweight, designed for both learners and those building industrial scale solutions. For the first time ever, Visual Studio will be 64-bit. The user experience will feel cleaner, intelligent, and action oriented. The first public preview of Visual Studio 2022 will be released this summer.

First Preview:
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/release-notes-preview
Despite the officially declared support only for win10 x64, the installer also started on 8.1 x86.

The most bloated product ever !

After 10 years of making excuses for why x64 bit support was too hard, MSFT finally adds support... Its not that hard, changing variable types and some format strings, etc. Granted with a huge code base, its bound to require serious testing. It was clear they would only do it for a selling point, and that it's become an embarrassment by 2022.

yup final will probably come in at 100MB !
need a separate hard drive just for VS install.

After you complete the installation, go to Control Panel - > Add Remove Programs
and just look how many packages were installed along with Visual Studio !
and also compare the registry size before and after installation.

I imagine they make it for dedicated development machines only. It's those customers with the big money they care about anyway. Its disk and registry usage is atrocious. But it's still a pretty powerful fun to use productivity development tool. It's at least become a bit more flexible with installation customization over the years.

The "process separation" which was advertised to improve the "snappiness" of the UI just made it even slower. Good stuff...

Imported from Edge no doubt. Good for browser, good for IDE I suppose, lol. Good news for Intel, hardly need to advertise the new chips with the bloated software doing it for free

I use it but I don't like it because it is not that much user friendly to me

Can it produce files for windows 7 ?

win7 is RIP for long time already :)

MS looks only into the future

btw, will it support avx512 at last?..

yes, but no UWP app support. MS lists it in their doc.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2022/compatibility#developWindows

VS is updated frequently, and the updated data package is often still very large, more and more like an online game.

ngl 2022 looks good but 2017 is still the best IMO.. how about you guys whats your favourite version?