Visual Studio 2022 contains many new and exciting features and IDE productivity enhancements to support Windows app development, cross-platform mobile development, Azure development, web and cloud development, and more. To try out Visual Studio 2022, see Visual Studio 2022 Downloads. For more information about everything that's new in this release, see the Visual Studio 2022 release notes and What's New in Visual Studio 2022.
You can install and use Visual Studio 2022 alongside previous versions of Visual Studio, including Visual Studio 2019, Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2013, and Visual Studio 2012.
When following the supported upgrade paths, your Visual Studio source, solutions, and project files will continue
to work; however, you should expect to make some changes to sources. While we cannot guarantee binary compatibility
between releases, we will do our best to document significant changes to assist you with updates.
Visual Studio provides cutting-edge tools and technologies to create apps that take advantage of the
latest platform capabilities, whether Windows, Android, iOS, or Linux. Visual Studio 2022 also targets
earlier platforms so you can create new apps or modernize existing apps that execute on earlier versions
of Windows while leveraging the enhanced development tools, quality enablement, and team collaboration
capabilities in Visual Studio 2022. For more information, see Managing references in a
project and Visual Studio Multi-Targeting
Overview.
Universal Windows app development for all target platforms is available when Visual Studio is installed on Windows 11 or Windows 10.
Unity, and .NET Multi-platform App UI (.NET MAUI) can also be used for cross-platform development of Universal Windows Apps on Windows 11 or Windows 10.
Build Apps that Run on Windows Phone
Windows Phone version
Using Tools for Native and Managed Classic Windows Desktop Development
Universal Windows apps can be built from the command line when using Windows Server 2016 or Windows Server 2019. UWP development—including designing, editing, and local debugging—is not available on Windows Server. You may deploy these apps to Windows server and debug them remotely.
Build Apps that Run on Windows Embedded Devices
Windows Embedded version
Using Tools for Native and Managed Classic Windows Desktop Development
Visual Studio 2022 supports development of apps that use any of the .NET implementations. Among the workloads and project types, you can find support for
.NET Framework, .NET Core, Mono, .NET Native for Universal Windows Platform (UWP), C#, F#, and Visual Basic. Visual Studio 2022 supports the following .NET implementations:
.NET Framework versions 4.8.1, 4.8, 4.7.2, 4.7.1, 4.7, and 4.6.2
Visual Studio 2022 Support for Android Development
Visual Studio 2022 enables you to build native Android apps using .NET and C# or using C++. The Visual Studio Tools for Unity and the Unreal Engine enable Android game development. You can also use the .NET MAUI VSCode extension to build Android apps using a Mac.
You can use Visual Studio setup to easily obtain the Android SDK and Android API levels required for Mobile development with .NET MAUI or C++.
You can download additional API levels separately using the Android SDK Manager. You can also use Visual Studio Setup to obtain the Android Native Development Kit (R10E), Java SE Development Kit, and Apache Ant.
Visual Studio 2022 enables you to build and debug apps for iOS by using C++, Unity, or .NET
and a Mac configured for iOS development when using remotebuild, vcremote, the Visual Studio Tools for Unity,
or Pair to Mac in Visual Studio. .NET supports iOS 11 and higher, and requires Xcode 15.2 or higher and OS X 11.0 "Big Sur" or higher.
You can also use the .NET MAUI VSCode extension to build iOS apps using a Mac.
Visual Studio 2022 enables you to build and debug apps for Linux using C++, Python, and Node.js. Creating C++ apps for Linux requires the Visual C++ for Linux Development extension. Creating apps with Python or Node,js, requires that you enable remote debugging on the target Linux machine. You can also create, build and remote debug .NET Core and ASP.NET Core applications for Linux using modern languages such as C#, VB and F#.
Visual Studio 2022 enables you to build console applications and ASP.NET applications that target macOS. However, debugging is not supported. For additional macOS development tools choices, try Visual Studio Code. Visual Studio Code provides a streamlined, extensible developer tool experience for macOS.
Team Explorer, Azure DevOps Server, and Team Foundation Server
Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2022 will connect to Azure DevOps Server 2019, Team Foundation Server 2017,
Team Foundation Server 2015, Team Foundation Server 2013, Team Foundation Server 2012, and Team Foundation Server 2010 SP1.