New Language Features

• C# 9.0 skip locals init

Contributions

• Various improvements in pattern detection for records (by @yyjdelete in #2476)
• ILSpyCmd: Added support for single-file bundles (by @Freakness109 in #2499)
• BAML decompiler: Add missing x:Static (by @wwh1004 and @bert2 in #2536)

Visual Studio AddIn

• We now have an addin for VS2022 https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=SharpDevelopTeam.ILSpy2022 that is separate from the legacy addin. If you had ILSpy installed in a preview version of VS2022, please uninstall the old version and install this new one.

Enhancements

• Added ETW instrumentation to the decompiler for performance measurements.
• Added DecompilerTypeSystem.CreateAsync to allow asynchronous initialization.
• #2522: Support backticks in fully-qualified names when searching for type
• #2520: The matched pairs are hardly visible in the dark theme
• #2298: Allow to change the DecompilerTextView's font size through scrolling.

Bug fixes

• #2518: "Other resources" section in resource files was not properly displayed
• #2534: Handle default implementations of properties and events in interfaces
• #2458, #2459: Fixed various correctness issues in IL code generated by C++/CLI.
• #2530: Stability fixes in pattern matching detection
• #2378: Stability fixes in deconstruction detection
• And many other fixes, for a full list click here.