Microsoft is making a native Arm version of Visual Studio 2022 and a mini PC
by Tom Warren from The Verge - All Posts on (#5ZK6V)
Microsoft's Project Volterra device. | Image: Microsoft
Microsoft is working on a native Arm64 version of Visual Studio 2022 and a miniature Arm PC. A preview version of an Arm native version of Visual Studio 2022 will be available in the next few weeks" and is expected to ship fully later this year alongside Arm64 .NET support.
While Arm devices like the Surface Pro X have been able to run Visual Studio through x64 emulation, some features haven't been supported and performance has suffered, too. Developers will certainly be intrigued to hear more about native Arm support for Visual Studio 2022 and VS Code, and Microsoft is creating what it describes as an Arm-native toolchain":
- Full Visual Studio 2022 & VS Code
- Visual C++
- Modern .NET 6 and Java
- Classic .NET Framework
- Windows Terminal
- W...