VS2022 confusion

Super Lloyd

VS2022 has preview version. I have the latest preview. It also has RC which, it turns out, are different product to preview. Now I have preview 7. And RC3 was just released at the same time. And what is the difference between both I wonder? It feels like it was just meant to confused me... :/

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honey the codewitch

Now you know why I wait. :laugh:

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Super Lloyd

Such wisdom and patience! :-D

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OriginalGriff

"Preview" means "Riddled with bugs we're working on" "RCx" means "Riddled with bugs we're not going to fix."

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Vaso Elias

Yeah, there are 2 versions, RC 2022 and Preview 2022. You can see on October 19th, they started releasing RC which they recommend to use. Visual Studio 2022 RC and Preview Release Notes | Microsoft Docs[^]

dandy72

I've personally never bothered with VS betas. The release versions are already buggy enough, why compound the problem? What feature is so compelling that you have to have it now?

Rich Shealer

The RC version is meant for production use and will continue to get the production releases going forward. These are fully supported by Microsoft. The Preview version is not for production use and will get continue to get future preview releases of the product going forward. Preview releases may have experimental features that may not make it to the release version.

Peter Adam

RC will be the final thing, the first public release supported version. Preview will be always preview of what (maybe) will be in the next released version. For those whose code requires the bleeding edge features (remember the span datatype). So after the first release it will immediately include the next steps. A glimpse of the future: The released versions of VS 2019[^]

Cp Coder

I cannot use this version (yet) because there is no Prism template pack for it yet. When I raised the issue on their blog site, Brian Lagunas himself responded that they will not create a Prism version for VS2022 while it is still a preview version - too many pitfalls. Lagunas is a wise man! :thumbsup:

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RC=release candiate Releasing an RC, a software developer says "please take a loot at this. I'm fairly confident for this to be a good rendition of the final product" Releasing a preview, a developer says "this is not done. THIS IS NOT DONE! I promise you for this thing NOT to be production-ready by any stretch".

BryanFazekas

First service pack or second? :laugh: I used to enjoy riding the bleeding edge, but it's been decades since I enjoyed being a beta (or alpha) tester!

honey the codewitch

Usually the 1st. I'm not ultra paranoid. I used to avoid anything with version "4" in it coming from microsoft as to this day .NET 4.x is maybe the only version 4 of anything they've produced that was solid, but medication helps.

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mheyman

Use RC unless you want to code MAUI (or some other non-release tech) - MAUI is still in preview and is only available with the preview VS2022.