Following a naming convention similar to Windows, Microsoft has released the first Insider build for Visual Studio 2026.

Microsoft has eased some licensing requirements for Visual Studio Build Tools (VSBT), which comprises a standalone MSVC compiler, libraries and scripts for C++.

Additionally, project templates now use Vite instead of create-react-app and vue cli for faster builds and server start. In general, Visual Studio 2022 17.7 got positive feedback from the community.

For .NET, Visual Studio 2022 17.5 now supports publishing to Azure Container Apps via Right-click > Publish for ASP.NET projects.

Most Objective-C projects will start as XCode projects, so Visual Studio includes the ability to import that project type.

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Microsoft has revealed that thanks to a partnership with Epic Games, it has made the readiness of IntelliSense and semantic code colorization in Unreal Engine projects faster by an order of 18x.