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Announcing Visual Studio Online Public Preview

Nik Molnar November 4, 2019 Nov 4, 2019 11/4/19

Announcing Visual Studio Online's public preview! VS Online provides managed, on-demand development environments that can be used for long-term projects, or for short-term tasks like reviewing pull requests. You can work with environments from VS Code or the included browser-based editor.

Visual Studio 2019 v16.4 Preview 2, Fall Sports, and Pumpkin Spice

Jacqueline Widdis October 15, 2019 Oct 15, 2019 10/15/19

Today Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.4 Preview 2 is released. Check out our new features in Container Tools, GitHub Integration, and IDE productivity.

.NET Core Support and More in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 – Update Now!

Jacqueline Widdis September 23, 2019 Sep 23, 2019 09/23/19

As we continue to deliver on our mission of any developer, any app, any platform, it's always an exciting time on the Visual Studio team when we get to launch major features. Today we've released Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 which contains support for the release of .NET Core 3.0, significant C++ improvements, and great updates for ...

The PowerShell you know and love now with a side of Visual Studio

Ruben Rios August 20, 2019 Aug 20, 2019 08/20/19

While we know that many of you enjoy, and rely on the Visual Studio Command Prompt, some of you told us that you would prefer to have a PowerShell version of the tool. We are happy to share that in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2, we added a new Developer PowerShell! Using the new Developer PowerShell We also added two new menu entries, ...

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 Preview 2 and Visual Studio for Mac version 8.3 Preview 2 Released!

Jacqueline Widdis August 13, 2019 Aug 13, 2019 08/13/19

Visual Studio version 16.3 Preview 2 and Visual Studio for Mac version 8.3 Preview 2 are available. Because many of the features in this release are a response to Developer Community feedback, we are excited to share our changes. First of all, the latest Preview versions both PC and Mac are available to download from VisualStudio.com. You can ...

Status on Visual Studio feature suggestions

Mads Kristensen July 31, 2019 Jul 31, 2019 07/31/19

Visual Studio receives over 500 feature suggestions from customers every month on the Developer Community website. Handling that amount is a huge effort and we’d like to share with you how we handle this volume and the steps that we take to respond to them all.

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2 Generally Available and 16.3 Preview 1

Jacqueline Widdis July 24, 2019 Jul 24, 2019 07/24/19

Check out what's new in the 16.2 generally available and 16.3 Preview 1 release of Visual Studio 2019. See the improvements to Test Explorer, search capabilities within the product, C++ linker iteration build times, and .NET Core 3.0

Visual Studio 2019 for Mac version 8.1 is now available (and a Preview for 8.2)

Cody Beyer June 13, 2019 Jun 13, 2019 06/13/19

Visual Studio for Mac 2019 v8.1 is available today along with a new Preview for v8.2. Both releases bring exciting new features, performance improvements and additional capabilities to help you be code better, faster.

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2 Preview 2

Jacqueline Widdis June 11, 2019 Jun 11, 2019 06/11/19

Check out what's new in the new Preview 2 release of Visual Studio 2019 16.2. Find out how to debug your ASP.NET (Core) web apps in the new Microsoft Edge Insider build, how to be more productive when you work with code in the IDE and how we make sure your Visual Studio installation makes the best out of your disk space

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 now generally available (and 16.2 Preview 1 as well)

Mads Kristensen May 22, 2019 May 22, 2019 05/22/19

Today, we are making Visual Studio 2019 version 16.1 generally available, as well as the first preview release of Visual Studio 2019 version 16.2. You can download both versions from VisualStudio.com. If you already have Preview installed, you can alternatively click the notification bell from inside Visual Studio to update.

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