Microsoft officially launches Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6
Both platforms promise new features and improved performance
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Microsofthas announced the general availability of.NET 6.0developer platform, along withVisual Studio2022, the all-purpose integrated development environment (IDE) from the Redmond-based company.
Both releases are significant, with .NET 6.0 being the first LTS release of the platform since .NET Core 3.1 in December 2019.
“There aremassive gains in performance, which we’ve seen dropping the cost ofhosting cloud servicesat Microsoft. .NET 6 is the first release that natively supportsApple Silicon(Arm64) and has also been improved for Windows Arm64.”notedRichard Lander, Program Manager, .NET Team, as he revealed the new features of .NET 6.0.
The .NET 6 release includes C# 10 and F# 6, and Lander hails it as a unified platform that enables developers to use one SDK to build apps for multiple platforms such as thebrowser, cloud,desktop, Internet of Things(IoT), and mobile.
Visual magic
Visual Studio developers who wish to develop with .NET 6 must upgrade to Visual Studio 2022, since the new .NET platform isn’t supported in Visual Studio 2019.
Visual Studio 2022, which is the first release of a 64-bit version of Visual Studio, brings in severalnew and useful features. Of particular interest is theHot Reloadfeature, which enables developers to edit code while the apps are running.
The feature in fact became a point of contention, when Microsoft suddenly decided to axe it from theopen sourceSDK, and instead make it an exclusive Visual Studio 2022 feature. The backlash against the move forced Microsoft to backtrack andreverse its decision.
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