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.

Visual Studio developers now get IntelliCode for XAML and C++ code, in addition to C#. Visual Studio Code developers can use IntelliCode when developing JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and Java.

From the ebook: Visual Studio 2019 became generally on April 3rd, bringing with it a slew of new features aimed at making developers more productive.

Microsoft is planning a day-long launch event for Visual Studio 2019, the latest release of its developer platform, on April 2.

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.

For the first time, Microsoft has begun to officially talk about Visual Studio 2019.

Microsoft is making available the latest versions of Visual Studio, its integrated development environment, for Windows and Mac users.

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1 for Windows and Mac, .NET Core 2.2, and .NET Core 3.0 Preview 1 at Microsoft Connect (); 2018.

Though details are light for now, Microsoft today took the wraps off of Visual Studio 2019, the next major release planned for the developer suite.