Articles filed in category 'Visual Studio 2022'

Upgrade Your Application and Prepare for the Future with .NET Aspire

By: Mike Yeager

Last updated: Thursday, June 19, 2025

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2025 - May/June

This article explores the evolving landscape of software upgrade and modernization initiatives, highlighting the tools available from Microsoft to streamline these processes. Mike started to use Visual Studio's Upgrade Assistant right after BUILD 2025 along with GitHub Copilot's AI-powered app modernization features, detailing their usage to alleviate technical debt and quickly modernize applications. He emphasizes the shift from a traditional project-based software development mindset to a continuous cycle approach, advocating for the use of .NET Aspire and other advanced tooling to facilitate this transition.

• .NET Aspire
• Visual Studio 2022
• Visual Studio Code

Minimal APIs in .NET 6

By: Shawn Wildermuth

Last updated: Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Published in: CODE Magazine: 2022 - January/February

Controller-based APIs have been around for a long time, but .NET 6 changes everything with a new option. Shawn shows you how it works.

• .NET 6
• C#
• REST
• Visual Studio 2022

Essential C# 10.0: Making it Simpler

By: Mark Michaelis

Last updated: Saturday, December 13, 2025

Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2021 - Vol. 18 - Issue 1 - .NET 6.0

Mark Michaelis argues that C# 10.0 is chiefly about removing ceremony and simplifying everyday code: file-scoped namespaces and global using directives reduce boilerplate, constant interpolated strings and richer lambdas improve expressiveness, CallerArgumentExpression enhances diagnostics for logging/assertions, and record structs and parameterless struct constructors close gaps for value types—small, non-revolutionary changes that are nonetheless practical and likely to become the new C# norms.

• .NET 6
• C#
• Visual Studio 2022

The Unified .NET 6

By: Richard Lander

Last updated: Friday, October 29, 2021

Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2021 - Vol. 18 - Issue 1 - .NET 6.0

There were many lessons learned as the .NET team released .NET 5 during the lockdown with an all-remote team. Rich shows how those lessons carried into .NET 6 with major performance improvements, multiple operating system scenarios for building client apps, support for Apple Silicon chips, and faster and more responsive development tools.

• .NET 6
• Visual Studio 2022

Visual Studio 2022 Productivity

By: Mika Dumont

Last updated: Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Published in: CODE Focus Magazine: 2021 - Vol. 18 - Issue 1 - .NET 6.0

VS 2022 is finally 64-bit! Mika shows you how, with enhanced speed, AI coding assistance, expanded productivity tools, and streamlined team collaboration, you’ll find this new version improving your workdays.

• Visual Studio 2022