With GitHub Copilot, debugging workflow is improved with integrated AI variable inspection. Developers also can fix code with Copilot, taking advantage of AI assistance to resolve code issues. Better AI completions for C# are featured as well.
To enhance debugging, the Visual Studio debugger now displays inline return values. And debugging has been improved for Blazor WebAssembly apps targeting .NET 9 or later. Among the productivity improvements, copying an error from the Error List now copies just the description, rather than entire row to the clipboard, and when Code Cleanup is run on Save, it now operates in a non-blocking manner, for a smoother coding experience. In Code Search, users now can navigate to a specific line in the current document or other specified document.
With Visual Studio 2022 17.12, the IDE now preserves font and font size preferences across a theme change. Mark of the Web (MotW) security warnings now are integrated into overall trust functionality, and Visual Studio now alerts the user if digital certificate problems are detected during network calls. For the cloud, publishing to Azure WebJobs on Linux now is supported by right-click publish capability. For the web, HTTP files now support request variables. Developers can send a request and then use data from the response, or request, in future requests.
