Microsoft announced the first preview of Visual Studio 2019 will be available before year's end, with general availability of the flagship IDE expected in the first half of 2019.

As Microsoft officials noted previously, VS 2019 now includes as an integrated part of the product Microsoft's Visual Studio Live Share, which is a collaborative programming service.

Microsoft said its compiler and standard library are feature-complete for C++ 20 in Visual Studio 2019 16.10, while a 16.11 preview centers on Hot Reload and .NET MAUI.

Microsoft has made available new preview versions of its IDE, Visual Studio 2019 for both Windows and Mac alongside a number of new Visual Studio Online integrations and capabilities.