Microsoft's Visual Studio 2019 is ready for download Microsoft is making available the latest versions of Visual Studio, its integrated development environment, for Windows and Mac users.

Visual Studio 2019 was announced back in June of last year, and it is now generally available for download.

.NET Core 3.0 won't be ready for Visual Studio 2019's April 2 ship date, but a manual download and a menu configuration setting will let you use both previews together right now.

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).

Visual Studio 2019 has several improvements that speed up build and link time for game developers. The improvements help developers of games such as Forza Horizon 4 spend more time writing code.

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.

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