It's a big month for developers using Microsoft's Visual Studio and .NET platforms
Visual Studio 2022 also includes a number of edits and debug improvements. It also provides Hot Reload, which allows developers to edit their source code while their apps are running in Visual Studio 2022 and from the .NET CLI. , It also has Live Preview capabilities and cross-platform testing on Linux, among other new and improved features. Visual Studio 2022 is available for immediate download. The release notes for Visual Studio 2022 v.17 are here.
.NET 6 is available for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It provides a unified platform across cloud, desktop, IoT and mobile apps by using the same .NET libraries and the ability to share code across platforms easily, officials said. This release has performance improvements, especially around file I/O.
This is the first .NET release that natively supports Apple Arm64 Silicon and supports Windows Arm64, as well. This release includes rebuilt ahead-of-time compiler tools and many new APIs. The .NET 6 release includes C# 10 and F# 6. The .NET 6 release is a Long-Term Support (LTS) version of .NET, meaning it will be supported for three years.