There’s a lot of interest in the developer community about the new version of Visual Studio, which is in preview currently. This week we released Vi

Visual Assist support for Visual Studio 2022 Previews!

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2021-08-12 22:30:07

There’s a lot of interest in the developer community about the new version of Visual Studio, which is in preview currently. This week we released Visual Assist 2021.3 (build 2420), and Visual Assist includes beta support for the Visual Studio 2022 Previews.

Visual Studio (VS) 2022’s main change—and it’s a significant one—is that it will become a 64-bit process. Since Visual Assist (VA or VAX) runs as a plugin, in-process, we needed to build a 64-bit version of our plugin DLL. Those who have upgraded 32-bit code to 64-bit code before know that, even in well-architected code, it takes some work even just to review code to ensure it is correct. In addition, the new version adds and modifies a number of APIs we rely on to interact with the IDE. This was the most significant change for us.

We’ve tested fully against VS 2022 Preview 2, and in fact the installer says ‘Preview 2’. There are some known regressions: