At .NET Conf 2024 some speakers used Visual Studio with a new UI. Is it the unannounced Visual Studio 2025? Nope. It’s just the updated UI for Visual Studio 2022!

Current and refreshed Visual Studio UI

A year ago, Microsoft previewed the updated Visual Studio UI and there are steps to activate it on any Visual Studio 2022:

  1. Install Feature Flags extension

    Install Feature Flags extension

  2. Restart Visual Studio

  3. Open Options > Environment > Feature Flags. Then disable Shell.Classic Styles and enable Shell.ExperimentalStyles

    Options menu

  4. Restart Visual Studio

That’s all!