Havens also did another Channel 9 video presentation, Write beautiful code, faster, for the VS 2019 launch event. Other Visual Studio productivity resources include: Increase your .NET Productivity ...

Microsoft continues its quest to embrace every developer with Visual Studio 2019 More Linux and more cloud services, too.

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

C++ development is a focus point of the new Visual Studio 2019 v16.7 Preview 2, featuring a slew of tweaks and improvements touching upon remote SSH connections, IntelliSense support and more.

Microsoft launched Visual Studio Online public preview, which meshes together Visual Studio, cloud-hosted developer environments, and a web-based editor.

Visual Studio gives C++ developers a productivity boost, plus better debugging for Blazor WebAssembly offline apps.

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.