Released: Mar 5, 2024
Updates in 23.2.5
Features
Voice Support - CTP (Community Technology Preview)
- After you specify Azure Speech Recognition and OpenAI API keys, you can enable voice features in Microsoft Visual Studio 2022.
- Voice Commands - Hold left Ctrl key and speak to trigger voice commands. Examples of things you can say and what they do:
- "open foo" - opens Foo.cs file in editor.
- "class bar" - navigates to classes named "bar".
- "bookmark storage" - creates a new bookmark named "storage".
- "goto storage" - jumps to a bookmark named "storage".
- "show me solution explorer" - shows the Solution Explorer.
- Voice commands can use inferred intent, so you don't have to be precise when invoking them. Also, if you're working in large solutions (e.g., with 10,000+ files) the Voice Command for opening files is a huge productivity boost.
Voice to Code
- Hold right Ctrl and speak to dictate strings, comments, expressions, and name identifiers. Examples of what you can create with voice:
- A new PascalCase or camelCase name when Visual Studio's Rename refactoring is active.
- Simple expressions in the code, including Linq expressions.
- String content (including expressions in interpolated strings).
- Comment content.
- XML Doc Comment content (including paramref and seealso tags).
Fixes
- Rich Comments - Images cannot be pasted in VS 2022.
- References Window - Double-click on a reference window opens the designer file instead of navigating to code.