Get ready –the first Insiders release of Visual Studio 2026 has arrived! In this new evolution of Visual Studio, we’re continuing our commitment to building the best integrated developer environment for C++ developers on Windows.
Visual Studio 2026 features a fresh UI, faster performance, and improved developer productivity with advanced AI integration.
For more details on what’s new, check out the official announcement on the Visual Studio Blog!
We would love your feedback – try out our Insiders release of Visual Studio 2026 today! If you run into any issues, you can report them to Visual Studio Developer Community from the IDE by navigating to Help > Send Feedback > Report a Problem.
Hi,
It seems to me that GitHub Copilot’s performance is still somewhat lacking compared to Visual Studio Code. Specifically, when I attempt to use MCP server with the insider version, it appears that the server is invoked only once per conversation. In contrast, with Visual Studio Code, the server is called every time.
Is this a deliberate difference in approach, a bug, or perhaps something else? I had anticipated that the insider version would be on par with Visual Studio Code , at least at this moment. Otherwise, it’s true that it feel faster.
Thanks for the feedback! This is not expected behavior, could you please file a bug report through Visual Studio and we’ll look into it? You can file through Help > Send Feedback > Report a Problem…
Oh, and what happened to the DataTips the font has shrunk so much you would need a magnifying glass to read them
Thank you for the feedback; I recommend filing a bug from Help > Send Feedback > Report a Problem in the IDE.
Since Visual Studio 2022 came in the Project Upgrade process seems to have been broken or at least not follow any standard UI guidelines, and I am reminded of it with the 2026 Insiders version of Visual Studio.
Visual Studio on opening a solution might find that there is a newer platform toolset available for C++ and so it shows you a list of all the projects that would be upgrade.
The two drop down options are 1 - the new platform toolset, and 2 - No Upgrade.
You can either choose one of those two and press the OK button, or...
Thank you for the feedback! We are shipping a new upgrade experience that will be available in a future preview before VS 18.0 reaches the Stable Channel.
The new Visual Studio seems to have totally removed the Solution based Project dependencies.
All previous versions of Visual Studio have for C++ projects "Build Dependencies\Project Dependencies". Whilst I actually prefer in-project based build dependencies they don't work with Azure DevOps when you have multiple solutions to build your product, if you use an in-project based dependency then at the beginning of the build, DevOps cleans the project and removes the build output which means if in Visual Studio 2026 I need to make 1 C++ project dependent on another then I can only do that if both projects are...
Did you work out where Project Dependencies has gone? I assume it was hidden in another menu somewhere but cannot find it anywhere – having to use older versions of VS to sort for the moment.
The build and project dependency options are now located in the solution’s context menu (no longer also in project context menu).
You can access them by right-clicking the solution node in Solution Explorer and selecting Project Build Dependencies from the menu.
Yes, it is a bug. Our team is aware of this issue and is working on a fix. I’ll check again with them on the status.
Update: our team is looking into this now.
Any feedback re this issue?
Ah, I think the Developer Community ticket I linked earlier was filed internally by someone else at Microsoft so I can’t make it visible. No further action needed, we will work on addressing this issue.
Attempting to visit that page I get:
“We were unable to get this feedback item. It could be because you don’t have access to it or it doesn’t exist
Error details: [“Request failed with status code 403″]”
Thanks for trying out VS 2026! I am not sure; I am following up with some folks who would know more and will get back to you.