Visual Studio Preview

Be the first to access the future of Visual Studio

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.

Test

Test Explorer Improvements

The Test Explorer now has significant performance and UI improvements. Visual Studio processes consume less memory and discovering large numbers of tests is faster. The updated UI includes easier filtering, more discoverable commands, and the addition of customizable columns and multi-tiered group by that let the user fine tune what test information is displayed.

Release Notes

Develop

New Project Dialog

The New Project Dialog retains applied filters between invocations. Retain filters for language, platform, and project type between invocations of the new project dialog so that you can access the types of templates you generally use with fewer clicks.

Release Notes

Deploy

Azure SignalR Service

Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.2 now comes with support for the Azure SignalR Service in publish profiles, meaning you can create new instances of the Azure SignalR Service without leaving the IDE. You can also select existing instances to satisfy the dependency requirements of your application environment.

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.

Developer Community

Save install time

… 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.