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.

Users can download Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6 starting today. Visual Studio 2022 is the first release of a 64-bit version of Visual Studio.

.NET 6 and Visual Studio 2022 have been long awaited and are the result of over a year of development effort.