Microsoft has announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac. This major version of one of the most popular development environments has released after a gap of two years during which the last major release – Visual Studio 2017 – received multiple incremental fixes and feature upgrades. Microsoft had launched the first preview of Visual Studio 2019 at the Microsoft Connect(); 2018 event in December 2018.
The new release includes a couple of highly anticipated features – IntelliCode and Live Share.
IntelliCode, available as an extension, is a set of AI-assisted capabilities to enhance developer productivity with features such as contextual IntelliSense, code formatting and style rule inference.