News

Visual Studio Devs Can Now Roll Back Problematic Updates

Addressing a longstanding developer request, Microsoft has made it easier to roll back problematic IDE updates in the new Visual Studio 2022 17.4 Preview 2.

As we earlier this year explained in the Visual Studio Magazine article, "Top 'On Roadmap' Feature Request for Visual Studio 2022: Roll Back Updates," the top open feature request that had been advanced to On Roadmap status on Microsoft's Developer Community site -- in terms of votes -- was filed in November 2018 by Staffan Tjernström, who asked Microsoft to "Introduce the ability to roll back a Visual Studio Update." It reads in part: "there is a definite need for the ability to roll back a visual studio release, or to lock a visual studio sub-release at a given version."

Almost four years later, that item, which garnered 432 votes and 189 comments, is now available in v17.4 preview 2, Microsoft said last week. The functionality was actually introduced in Preview 1, as Microsoft set up a Developer Community site to collect "Feedback on the rollback feature introduced in VS 2022 version 17.4 P1." That item has garnered 14 comments.

Similar Developer Community bug/feature request items enacted in Preview 2 include several that build on recently introduced support for the Arm64 CPU architecture, which was boosted in the previous preview as explained in the article, "Visual Studio 2022 17.4 Preview 1 Furthers Arm64 Support."

In Preview 2, that Arm64 support is extended with these items:

"We have made significant progress bringing additional components and workloads to the native Arm64 Visual Studio experience," Microsoft's Marc Goodner said in a Sept. 14 announcement post. "This includes the highly anticipated native performance improvements for the Windows SDK (includes Win UI 2 and UWP) as well as support for Win App SDK (Win UI 3)!"

Visual Studio 2022 17.4 Preview 2 Updates
[Click on image for larger view.] Visual Studio 2022 17.4 Preview 2 Updates (source: Microsoft).

Many other Developer Community requests were also addressed in Preview 2 (as shown in the above graphic), including:

Other updates in Preview 2 affect collaboration and Microsoft Teams, productivity, .NET improvements and much more.

The Preview 2 release notes provide more information on all of the above and much more.

About the Author

David Ramel is an editor and writer for Converge360.

comments powered by Disqus

Featured

  • AI for GitHub Collaboration? Maybe Not So Much

    No doubt GitHub Copilot has been a boon for developers, but AI might not be the best tool for collaboration, according to developers weighing in on a recent social media post from the GitHub team.

  • Visual Studio 2022 Getting VS Code 'Command Palette' Equivalent

    As any Visual Studio Code user knows, the editor's command palette is a powerful tool for getting things done quickly, without having to navigate through menus and dialogs. Now, we learn how an equivalent is coming for Microsoft's flagship Visual Studio IDE, invoked by the same familiar Ctrl+Shift+P keyboard shortcut.

  • .NET 9 Preview 3: 'I've Been Waiting 9 Years for This API!'

    Microsoft's third preview of .NET 9 sees a lot of minor tweaks and fixes with no earth-shaking new functionality, but little things can be important to individual developers.

  • Data Anomaly Detection Using a Neural Autoencoder with C#

    Dr. James McCaffrey of Microsoft Research tackles the process of examining a set of source data to find data items that are different in some way from the majority of the source items.

  • What's New for Python, Java in Visual Studio Code

    Microsoft announced March 2024 updates to its Python and Java extensions for Visual Studio Code, the open source-based, cross-platform code editor that has repeatedly been named the No. 1 tool in major development surveys.

Most   Popular

Subscribe on YouTube