When Microsoft first announced that the upcoming Visual Studio 2022 is moving to 64 bits, they caught us by surprise.  Microsoft products are known for great backward compatibility, but that comes with a hefty cost of keeping alive numerous interfaces and technologies introduced several releases ago. Native components have to work side-by-side with managed components. COM interfaces have to work together with MEF interfaces. Legacy synchronous API should not break the new asynchronous one.

And to my great pleasure (and to Microsoft’s credit) they have done a tremendous job moving the unimaginably complex Visual Studio environment the x64 platform. Sure, it did require some changes on our side, but the overall process went much smoother than I could have anticipated.

What it means for our users, is that VisualGDB is now fully compatible with Visual Studio 2022 Preview. Simply download VisualGDB 5.6 Beta 4 and it will automatically detect your VS2022 installation and will integrate with it, so you can keep enjoying the best of both VisualGDB and Visual Studio without any distractions.

Today we are proud to announce the release of VisualGDB 5.6 Beta 3. This version introduces the ability to directly debug the PIO module of Raspberry Pi Pico, adds support for custom debug setups, increases the stability of the Xilinx Vitis integration, and contains numerous other improvements. In this post I will give you a overview of the main features introduced in this release.

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We have released a new version of SmarTTY, our free multi-tabbed SSH client. The new release focuses on improving usability and making common scenarios simpler. Let’s overview the main features of the new release:
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