Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 Enterprise

Visual Studio 2022 Enterprise: Microsoft's development environment with advanced tools for diagnostics, testing and architecture

Visual Studio 2022 Enterprise is the Enterprise edition of Microsoft's integrated development environment (IDE) for Windows. In addition to the editor, compiler, debugger and Git integration, it includes tools that matter above all in larger projects with an extensive code base: the IntelliTrace execution recording, Live Unit Testing, Microsoft Fakes for isolating tests, IntelliTest as well as code maps, dependency diagrams and the detection of code duplicates. The edition is therefore aimed at development teams and businesses that want to handle quality assurance and architecture control directly in the IDE.

Core features of the IDE

Since Visual Studio 2022, the IDE runs as a pure 64-bit process, and x64 PCs and Windows 11 on ARM64 devices are supported. Via workloads, only what is needed for C#, Visual Basic, C++, Python, Node.js or web development is installed. With Hot Reload, code changes can be applied to a running .NET or C++ application without restarting it, and IntelliCode suggests entire lines when writing C# code. Visual Studio 2022 supports the .NET Framework in versions 4.6.2 to 4.8.1 and cross-platform .NET, as well as development for Azure, Android, iOS (with a configured Mac) and Linux with C++, Python and Node.js.

Tools of the Enterprise edition

IntelliTrace records events such as exceptions, debugger events and .NET Framework events during debugging. If required, it captures snapshots of the entire application state at breakpoints and debugger steps, so that you can trace how an error occurred without running the application again up to that point. IntelliTrace offers its full scope for .NET Framework applications in C# and Visual Basic, while support for C++ and .NET Core is limited.

Live Unit Testing runs unit tests in the background while you edit the code and displays test results and code coverage directly in the editor. This lets you see while writing whether a change causes existing tests to fail. It works with MSTest, NUnit and xUnit for projects with .NET or .NET Framework. With Microsoft Fakes, dependencies such as database access or system calls are replaced by stand-ins in .NET unit tests so that a component can be tested in isolation. In Visual Studio 2022, IntelliTest automatically generates test cases for .NET Framework code.

For architecture, the Enterprise edition provides code maps, which display dependencies in the code of a solution graphically and thus make it easier to get to grips with unfamiliar code or code that has grown over time. In dependency diagrams, the desired layering of an application is defined; live validation shows violations of these specifications directly in the code. Code clone analysis finds duplicate or similar sections of code that can be consolidated. The architecture tools are not supported in Visual Studio on ARM64 devices.

Buy Visual Studio 2022 Enterprise: licence and scope of delivery

You receive a perpetual licence for Visual Studio 2022 Enterprise. The licence applies to one user, who can install Visual Studio on several devices; simultaneous use on many computers is not licensed. The scope of delivery includes:

• the product key for Visual Studio 2022 Enterprise
• the download link for the software (all downloads are also available under Software Download)
• instructions for installation and activation (see also Guides and FAQ)
• the invoice

Once your payment has been received, your product key is displayed directly on the order confirmation page and also sent to you by email. After that, you can retrieve it again at any time: with a customer account under My Product Codes, without a customer account via the Guest Portal.

If you have any questions about installation or activation, our Support team is available around the clock by email. For several developer workstations, offers for businesses, schools and public authorities are available in the B2B Area. You will find further versions in the category Development & Programming and under PC Software.

System requirements

Minimum requirements according to Microsoft. Microsoft no longer lists Windows 10 among the supported operating systems for Visual Studio 2022. Administrator rights are required for installation, and Microsoft recommends an SSD for better performance.