G. Martínez-Criado,
R. Tucoulou,
P. Cloetens,
P. Bleuet,
S. Bohic,
J. Cauzid,
I. Kieffer,
E. Kosior,
S. Labouré,
S. Petitgirard,
A. Rack,
J. A. Sans,
J. Segura-Ruiz,
H. Suhonen,
J. Susini and
J. Villanova Present beamline characteristics, recent technical developments and a few recent scientific examples of the hard X-ray microprobe ID22 of the ESRF are described.