Visual Studio 2022 add-in is now available for Dynamics 365 for Financials and Operations

The Visual Studio 2022 add-in is now available for Dynamics 365 for Financials and Operations (D365 F&O). This add-in is a significant upgrade because Visual Studio 2022 is the first 64-bit version of Visual Studio.

This add-in is compatible with the first 64-bit version of Visual Studio. It aims to solve many issues that were seen in debugging scenarios, especially those caused by memory pressure from loading large symbol files.

The new VS 2022 add-in is installed on the VHDs environments (the October release, with the PU61 / App 10.0.37.0 payload) that you can download from LCS. If you have an environment hosting VS 2019, you can go ahead and install Visual Studio 2022. Your next deployment will install the VS 2022 VSIX, starting from PU 60.

If you are using the Unified Developer Experience, you can download the Power Platform VS extension from the Visual Studio Marketplace through the VS 2022 application.

Benefits of Visual Studio 2022 for D365 F&O:

• It solves many of the issues seen in debugging scenarios. Some packages are very large, and the memory pressure caused by loading the symbol files was causing some stability problems in the 32-bit architecture. This new version has significantly reduced these instabilities.
• It is recommended to use the PDB files shipped with the product (rather than building them yourself) because the shipped PDB files are much smaller than the ones you can create locally.

How to get it:

• The new VS 2022 add-in is installed on the VHDs environments (the October release, with the PU61 / App 10.0.37.0 payload) that you can download from LCS.
• If you have an environment hosting VS 2019, you can go ahead and install Visual Studio 2022. Your next deployment will install the VS 2022 VSIX, starting from PU 60.
• If you are using the Unified Developer Experience, you can download the Power Platform VS extension from the Visual Studio Marketplace through the VS 2022 application.

For more information on add-ins, you can refer to the Microsoft Learn page on Tools add-ins for Visual Studio - Finance & Operations | Dynamics 365. There’s also a tutorial on the Fleet Management solution in Visual Studio, which might be helpful. If you need help setting up your D365 F&O VS Environment, you can follow the guide here.