Microsoft announced the first public preview of Visual Studio 2022. The improved tool will be faster, more lightweight, and will be a 64-bit app.

Microsoft is finally releasing a 64-bit version of Visual Studio, but you have to rebuild your VSIX extensions for the new IDE.

Microsoft has officially announced the Visual Studio 2022 is getting its first public preview this summer, and that it will bring some big news including switching to a 64-bit architecture.

64-bit? welcome to 2003, friends Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 will (finally) enter the 64-bit world Next year's upgrade—out for preview later this summer—looks like a doozy.