Visual Studio 2022 version 17.13 Preview 3 released

We're excited to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2022 v17.13. This update focuses stability and security, along with continuous improvements all-around.

Released on January 22, 2025.

Productivity​

Setting up WinUI project made easy

We’ve now updated WinUI workload name from "Windows application development" to "WinUI application development", so it is easier to discover.

GitHub Copilot​

Meet GitHub Copilot Free

GitHub Copilot Free is now available, gives you 2,000 code completions and 50 chat requests per month at no cost—all seamlessly integrated into Visual Studio.


I'm your AI pair programmer

GitHub Copilot Free gives you:​

2,000 code completions per month
50 chat messages per month

GitHub Copilot Free helps you:​

• Code faster with completions and inline chat
• Build and fix features with Copilot Edits
• Explore your codebase with Chat

No trial. No credit card required. Just your GitHub account.

Sign up for GitHub Copilot Free​

By continuing, you agree to the GitHub terms and privacy policy.


Happy coding!
The GitHub Copilot and Visual Studio team

Important

Activate GitHub Copilot Free and unlock this and other AI features. No trial. No credit card. Just your GitHub account.

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IDE​

Check out the new features in the Teams Toolkit

Learn about the Teams Toolkit improvements in the new release.

We're excited to announce the new features added to the Teams Toolkit:

App Test Tool support for Message Extension app​

The App Test Tool is an integrated Teams environment for testing Teams apps. Previously, we delivered Tab and Bot support for debugging in the App Test Tool. Now, you can also debug Message Extension apps by simply selecting the App Test Tool option in the debug menu.

AI Bot template upgrade​

Chat with Your Data is a Teams app template we introduced in a previous release. It allows you to create a Custom Copilot, an AI-powered chatbot with RAG capability that can understand natural language and retrieve domain data to answer domain-specific questions. In this version, we have upgraded the template to add two additional data sources: Custom API and Microsoft 365.

• Custom API: Your chatbot can invoke the API defined in the OpenAPI description document to retrieve domain data from the API service.
• Microsoft 365: Your chatbot can query M365 context data from the Microsoft Graph Search API as a data source in the conversation.

Top user-reported bug fixes​

• Unable to start Debug mode with Xamarin.forms on Android since update to 17.12.0
• Output window on Debug not showing any debug messages
• Unable to locate MSBuild path with Latest VS Preview Version 17.13

See the full list of all the user-reported bug fixes that made it into this release.

Important

A breaking change has been made to Domain-Specific Language model serialization. Developers using the default serialization mechanism for their models that contain custom property types will need to add TypeConverters for those custom property types. For an example of how to do this, see Customizing File Storage and XML Serialization.

From all of us on the team, thank you for choosing Visual Studio. If you have any questions, please reach us on Twitter or Developer Community.

Happy coding!
The Visual Studio team

Note

This update may include new Microsoft or third-party software that is licensed separately, as set out in the 3rd Party Notices or in its accompanying license.