Better GitHub integration and other improvements highlight the new Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.7 and first preview of v16.8.

Along with .NET 5, Microsoft today shipped Visual Studio 2019 v16.8, which sees Git turned on by default as the version control experience in the latest update of the company's flagship IDE.

The Git Experience is available as the default source control experience in Visual Studio 2019 as of version 16.8.

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2019 16.4, the newest version of its full integrated developer environment (IDE) that was launched in April.

Visual Studio 2019 goes live with C++, Python shared editing Microsoft's venerable IDE receives its biannual update.

Microsoft also will integrate the Visual Studio Live Share collaboration feature into both Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio Code, the open-source version of the commercial product.

Microsoft is open sourcing WPF, Windows Forms and Win UI via GitHub and making available the first public preview of Visual Studio 2019.

Learning Visual Studio 2019 For a full run-down of all the additions and improvements, check out what’s new, the docs, and release notes (Windows, Mac).

Microsoft has announced that it is retiring Visual Studio Codespaces - previously Visual Studio Online - and consolidating it into GitHub Codespaces, which is in limited public beta right now.