Microsoft has announced that it made several performance improvements in Visual Studio 2022 in the 17.3 release. Mainly these enhancements relate to Git branch switching and C++.

Git-related improvements in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.1 allow developers to compare a current branch with other branches in their repository, making it easier to keep track of branches while ...

The company announced that GPT-5 is now integrated into the IDE, and support for MCP is generally available as well.

Resources for using the popular distributed source code control and collaboration tools Git and Mercurial on Windows.

Microsoft has rolled out Visual Studio 2022 17.1 Preview 2, which contains a ton of enhancements related to Git, C++, .NET, and macOS development. Color tabs are finally supported too.

Add 'submit Git commit' to the growing list of developer tasks in Visual Studio 2022 that are now being handled by AI.

Visual Studio 2022 17.6 brings significant performance, editor, and C++ enhancements, while a version 17.7 preview adds more productivity improvements.

Next is the removal of a modal dialog that blocked use of the IDE when switching branches in Git. Related to this is that VS2017 will no longer need to reload the open project/solution when ...