Introducing Visual Studio 17.10 – Preview 2 is Here!
We hope you all enjoyed the new and updated features that came with our first preview of Visual Studio 17.10, and now we have even more to share! This release brings additional tools to help you improve your code reviews with Copilot, diagnostics improvements, as well as additional Extensibility and WinForms enhancements.
Browse this list of updates and let us know which of these enhancements is your favorite:
Area
Features
Productivity
- Improve Your Code Reviews with Generated Pull Request Descriptions
Unravel Your Commit History with GitHub Copilot
View and Address Pull Request Comments in Visual Studio Editor ( Community Suggestion – 203 votes)
Improve readability of Visual Studio with additional formatting options for text ( Community Suggestion – 64 votes)
WinForms Designer
- Performance Improvements in out-of-process designer ( Community Suggestion – 189 votes)
SQL Server Developer Tools
- SSDT support for VS in Arm64 ( Community Suggestion – 79 votes)
Extensibility
- Ability to export Marketplace extensions into the config file ( Community Suggestion)
Debugging and Diagnostics
- .NET Counter profiler visualization with new UpDown and ObservableCounter instruments
- GC Insights in Managed Memory Window
Introducing Visual Studio 17.10 – Preview 2 is Here! - Visual Studio Blog
Microsoft has announced the release of the second preview of Visual Studio 17.10.