{"id":230670,"date":"2020-09-22T08:14:26","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T15:14:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/?p=230670"},"modified":"2020-09-22T08:14:26","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T15:14:26","slug":"visual-studio-2019-v16-8-preview-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/visual-studio-2019-v16-8-preview-3-1\/","title":{"rendered":"New Features in Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 Preview 3.1"},"content":{"rendered":"

In conjunction with Ignite 2020<\/a>, we are releasing Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 Preview 3.1. Our events always bring an excitement to our team as we launch new functionality to our product. In this release, we are giving you access to improvements in Git Integration, C++20 conformance, .NET Productivity, Web Tools, and XAML .\u00a0 We can\u2019t wait to hear how these features impact your work for the better. Equally, we love to hear how we can strive for constant improvement through our Developer Community<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While taking in one of our free Ignite 2020 sessions, why not download our latest Preview release and give some of these new features a try?<\/p>\n

Install Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 Preview 3.1<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n

GitHub Codespaces for Visual Studio<\/h3>\n

GitHub Codespaces for Visual Studio is now available<\/a> as a limited beta in Visual Studio 2019 Preview 3.1. This gives you an instant cloud development environment that lets you code from anywhere. You can use the features you love from Visual Studio 2019 in a codespace to develop, test, and deploy modern apps including ASP.NET Core web apps, .NET Core, CMake, and C++ console \/ library apps. GitHub Codespaces for Visual Studio is available to a subset of GitHub users that sign-up while in limited beta. Over time, more users will get access based on availability and sign up date.<\/p>\n

Sign-up to try GitHub Codespaces for Visual Studio<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n

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Create GitHub Codespaces from Visual Studio 2019<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

On a local machine,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Visual Studio<\/span><\/span>\u00a0compete<\/span><\/span>s<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>with\u00a0<\/span><\/span>other apps\u00a0<\/span><\/span>for\u00a0<\/span><\/span>resources with limits in<\/span><\/span>\u00a0CPU<\/span><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>disk<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>space<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0With\u00a0<\/span><\/span>C<\/span><\/span>odespaces<\/span><\/span>,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>many of the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>CPU intensive\u00a0<\/span><\/span>operations\u00a0<\/span><\/span>like\u00a0<\/span><\/span>loading the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>solution,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>building,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0and debugging\u00a0<\/span><\/span>are offloaded\u00a0<\/span><\/span>to\u00a0<\/span><\/span>the cloud. This <\/span><\/span>allows you to <\/span><\/span>work on enterprise scale application without\u00a0<\/span><\/span>impacting\u00a0<\/span><\/span>y<\/span><\/span>our<\/span><\/span>\u00a0local\u00a0<\/span><\/span>machine\u2019s resources.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>This <\/span><\/span>also<\/span><\/span>\u00a0allowed us to dramatically reduce what we install locally when you\u2019re building apps in a\u00a0<\/span><\/span>C<\/span><\/span>odespace<\/span><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Installing Visual Studio to connect to GitHub\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Codespaces<\/span><\/span>\u00a0takes minutes<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Quick Set-up<\/h4>\n