Microsoft releases native Arm versions for Visual Studio 2022 and VS Code – IT Pro – News

Microsoft announces native Arm64 versions for Visual Studio 2022 and VS Code. A first preview version should be available in a few weeks and officially released later this year.

Next native Arm support for Visual Studio 2022 and VS Code, Microsoft announces that also Visual C++, Modern .NET 6 and Java, classic .NET Framework, Windows Terminal and WSL and WSA for Linux and Android apps soon native are supported. This ensures that developers no longer have to use emulation.

In addition to software support, Microsoft is also partnering with Qualcomm on what the two companies call “Project Volterra.” It’s about developing hardware, although Microsoft gives few details about what exactly can be expected from Project Volterra. Project Volterra will in any case get a Snapdragon processor and an NPU for developing AI applications, according to Microsoft. In terms of design, it seems to be a mini PC, where you can connect several devices can stack on top of each other.

In addition to developing Arm hardware and the native supporting Arm processors in its development tools, Microsoft says it will also support several open source projects to make the transition to nativee Arm support, including Python, node, git and LLVM.

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