Microsoft has open sourced a .NET 5 C# Language Extension for SQL Server, allowing developers to work with relational data in the company's flagship programming language.

Microsoft is touting new capabilities in ASP.NET Core web development in Visual Studio 2022 thanks to a new Razor editor powered by a Razor Language Server. It leverages the Language Server Protocol ...

Additionally, project templates now use Vite instead of create-react-app and vue cli for faster builds and server start. In general, Visual Studio 2022 17.7 got positive feedback from the community.