{"id":231049,"date":"2020-11-10T10:09:04","date_gmt":"2020-11-10T18:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/?p=231049"},"modified":"2020-11-11T08:23:10","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T16:23:10","slug":"visual-studio-2019-v16-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/visual-studio-2019-v16-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 and v16.9 Preview 1 Release Today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today the Visual Studio team is proud to announce the release of Visual Studio 2019 v16.8 and v16.9 Preview 1. These releases have several notable features from the teams improving Git Productivity, C++, IntelliCode, .NET, XAML, and Web Tools. In addition, we hope you have been able to sign-up for our Preview of GitHub Codespaces<\/a> as there is so much excitement about this new development environment!<\/p>\n

While I detail the features released today, why not take a few minutes to download our latest version to try some of these updates for yourself?\u00a0 We love to hear feedback on Developer Community<\/a>, so please do not hesitate to add suggestions for product improvement or problems you may encounter. There is so much content to cover today, so let’s get started on what’s new!<\/p>\n

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

What’s Releasing in Visual Studio 2019 v16.8?<\/h2>\n

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Git Productivity<\/h3>\n

Git is now the default version control experience in Visual Studio 2019. We have spent the last two releases building out the feature set and iterating based on your feedback. The experience has now been turned on by default for everyone. From the new Git menu, you can clone, create, or open repositories. Use the integrated Git tool windows to commit and push changes to your code, manage branches, stay up to date with your remote repositories, and resolve merge conflicts. Find a full list of features in the Release Notes<\/a> and earlier blog posts<\/a>. Learn how to use and customize the experience in documentation<\/a>. Please be sure to supply feedback as we continue to enhance the experience!<\/p>\n

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Git Productivity Demonstration in Visual Studio 2019 v16.8<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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C++20 Conformance<\/h3>\n

In this release, we have improved support for major C++20 features across our compiler, standard library, and IDE. You can use Modules, Coroutines, and some Ranges in the same project. All of the major feature work is complete and available under \/std:c++latest<\/strong>. From our team, comes a reminder to include the <coroutine> header to access the new Coroutines features. If you need to access any of the legacy behavior, this remains available under <experimental\/coroutine> and the use of the \/await<\/strong> switch. When it comes to Modules, header units and experimental MSBuild support will work out any module dependencies automatically. This ensures they are built in the correct order.<\/p>\n

Our teams have put together additional blog posts on both Coroutines and Modules, so please take a look if you’d like to learn more.<\/p>\n

In addition, we do support most of the C++ Ranges, but still have some work to do in order to deliver full functionality to you. While this release includes support for most of the range-based algorithms, you can track progress of what is left to do in this GitHub issue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finally, IntelliSense also provides support for C++20 <concepts> and <ranges> headers and rename and browsing for concept definitions.<\/p>\n

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IntelliSense Support for C++20 in Visual Studio 2019 v16.8<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n
Standard Template Library (STL) Features and Optimization<\/h5>\n

Another thing that makes us excited are the new STL features and optimizations.<\/p>\n

Examples include:<\/p>\n