Missing year on the VS 2026 shortcut hints at a huge change
On installing VS 2026, I noticed the year is missing on the shortcut. It’s no bug, and the way Visual Studio is being developed, released and supported is changing in a huge way.
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Why doesn't VS 2022 show my WinForms UI at design time?
Someone at work asked about whether we’d be able to use VS 2022 to work on our main WinForms app. It works just fine in VS 2019, so it should work in VS 2022, right? Except it doesn’t. What we get is white screens of brokenness whenever we try to open a Form in the designer. But why?
How to select an earlier .NET version on Visual Studio for Mac (tl;dr: you can't)
Despite its marketing, Visual Studio for Mac is not the Visual Studio that millions love, ported to the Mac. Something that’s absolutely trivial in standard VS, switching between .NET Frameworks, wasted several of my evenings. Maybe it’ll help someone else.