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Visual Studio 2019

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Visual Studio Preview

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What’s in it for me
Our pre-release gives you early access to the new features not yet in Visual Studio.
Try side by side
Install the Preview right alongside your main release, leaving your production install undisturbed.*

Community

Free, fully-featured IDE for students, open-source contributors, and individuals.
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Professional

Fully-featured IDE for small teams. Best if you have a Visual Studio Professional subscription.
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Enterprise

End-to-end solution for teams of any size. Best if you have a Visual Studio Enterprise subscription.
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*If you use extensions, they will need to be installed for each instance of Visual Studio in a side by side install.

NET productivity improvements

Your continued feedback is very important to us, as we continue to improve .NET productivity by bringing back the sort usings command. Adding a code fix to convert a switch statement to a switch expression and a code fix to generate a new parameter.
Screenshot of converting switch statement to expression

Release Notes

Debugging in Microsoft Edge

The latest preview release of Visual Studio enables debugging JavaScript in the new Microsoft Edge Insider browser for ASP.NET and ASP.NET Core projects. To do this, simply install the browser, set a breakpoint in the application’s JavaScript and start a debug session. Visual Studio will launch a new browser window with debugging enabled allowing you to step through your JavaScript code within Visual Studio.
Screenshot of debugging in Microsoft Edge

Release Notes

C++ improvements

For local CMake projects configured with Clang, Code Analysis now runs clang-tidy checks, appearing as part of background code analysis as in-editor warnings (squiggles) and in the Error List. There are also C++20 Standard Library feature additions.

Release Notes

What is a Preview?

Visual Studio Preview gives you early access to the latest features and improvements not yet available in the main release. By trying Preview, you can take advantage of new builds and updates that ship on a frequent cadence. For more information on Visual Studio Preview installs, visit our FAQ page.

Please note that the preview version is continuously evolving and certain features may not work as expected. This version is also not licensed to build shipping applications. If you would like to build production application you can access stable release of Visual Studio from our downloads page.

Engage with our community


We believe that to create a great product for you, we should listen to and engage with you in every stage of our development.
As you evaluate what’s next with Visual Studio Preview, report a bug or suggest a feature in our developer community, where you can talk directly to our product engineers. Your feedback empowers us to evolve and ensure the highest quality in our final product.

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… in an Azure Virtual Machine
Try Visual Studio Preview in an environment that is entirely separate from your local development machine. Preview is pre-installed on a Windows server, saving you time on your Visual Studio install process.
Activate your free Azure account and claim your Azure credits which include $200 to use in your first month.

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Screenshot of creating a virtual machine
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