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Visual Studio 2019 Preview 2 is now available

January 24, 2019 Jan 24, 2019 01/24/19
Angel Zhou
The second preview of Visual Studio 2019 is now available for download. This release contains a number of improvements and additions to the core experience and different development areas, many of which are a result of your direct feedback. As always, you can check out the release notes for more details or read on for the highlights.

New Azure DevOps Work Item Experience in Visual Studio 2019

December 12, 2018 Dec 12, 2018 12/12/18
Dan Hellem
In previous versions of Visual Studio, the work item experience was centered around queries, which need to be created and managed to find the right work items. In Visual Studio 2019, we have removed queries and added a new view for work items centered at the developer. This allows the developer to quickly find the work they need and associate them to their pending changes. Removing the need for queries.

Making every developer more productive with Visual Studio 2019

December 4, 2018 Dec 4, 2018 12/4/18
Visual Studio Blog
Today, in the Microsoft Connect(); 2018 keynote, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1. This is the first preview of the next major version of Visual Studio. In this Preview, we’ve focused on a few key areas, such as making it faster to open and work with projects stored in git repositories, improving ...