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Newer version of Visual Studio release plans (2021, 2022, 2023 - major version)
Sorry for possibly stupid question, but I didn't find any MS plans about new vesion release. I would like to update old 2017 VS in my company to the newest one, but looks like 2019 is not so fresh and newer version is on the way (possibly). So, the… More on learn.microsoft.com
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Do you think there will be a new Visual Studio version?
You can't possibly be serious. More on reddit.com
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Plans for VS2024?
They don't have a specific timeline, but historic wise it has been between 2 or 3 years cadence. I'm pretty sure we might start to see news about it in Microsoft Build 2024 as a preview. Which usually happens in May. A full release should be later in the year around November or December. It should be called VS 2025. Remember VS 2022 was released in the end of 2021. I would say AI stuff will be at the core of it. This is just my humble opinion. So to answer your specific question. No, there won't be a VS 2024. But VS 2022 has gotten some nice updates and even received copilot. Though it uses plugins. I believe it will builtin into VS in next gen. More on reddit.com
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My Top 10 NEW Visual Studio Features of 2023 for .NET Developers - .NET Blog
I normally find these types of articles to be complete trash, but I did learn about Endpoint Explorer from this and am very happy to learn about this feature. Too bad I didn't find it before I manually crawled through all our controllers and documented all our endpoints :cry: More on reddit.com
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How am I billed for Copilot code review usage from users without a Copilot license?

Usage from non-licensed users is billed directly to your organization as "premium requests" (PRUs) at the standard multiplier rate for Copilot code review. This flexible model allows you to get full review coverage on every PR without needing to purchase a full Copilot seat for non-development contributors who may not need Copilot. Usage from your existing licensed users simply continues to draw from their included monthly allowance as it does today.

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What are the differences between the GitHub Copilot Business, GitHub Copilot Enterprise, and GitHub Copilot Individual plans?

GitHub Copilot has multiple offerings for organizations and an offering for individual developers. All the offerings include both inline suggestion and chat assistance. The primary differences between the organization offerings and the individual offering are license management, policy management, and IP indemnity.

Organizations can choose between GitHub Copilot Business and GitHub Copilot Enterprise. GitHub Copilot Business primarily features GitHub Copilot in the coding environment - that is the IDE, CLI and GitHub Mobile. GitHub Copilot Enterprise includes everything in GitHub Copilot Business. It also  adds an additional layer of customization for organizations and integrates into GitHub.com as a chat interface to allow developers to converse with GitHub Copilot throughout the platform. GitHub Copilot Enterprise can index an organization’s codebase for a deeper understanding of the customer’s knowledge for more tailored suggestions and will offer customers access to fine-tuned custom, private models for inline suggestions.

GitHub Copilot Individual is designed for individual developers, freelancers, students, educators, and open source maintainers. The plan includes all the features of GitHub Copilot Business except organizational license management, policy management, and IP indemnity.

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What are the differences between the Free, Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans?

GitHub Copilot has multiple offerings for organizations and an offering for individual developers. All the offerings include both code completion and chat assistance. The primary differences between the organization offerings and the individual offering are license management, policy management, and IP indemnity.

Organizations can choose between GitHub Copilot Business and GitHub Copilot Enterprise. GitHub Copilot Business primarily features GitHub Copilot in the coding environment - that is the IDE, CLI and GitHub Mobile. GitHub Copilot Enterprise includes everything in GitHub Copilot Business. It also  adds an additional layer of customization for organizations and integrates into GitHub.com as a chat interface to allow developers to converse with Copilot  throughout the platform. GitHub Copilot Enterprise can index an organization’s codebase for a deeper understanding of the customer’s knowledge for more tailored suggestions and will offer customers access to fine-tuned custom, private models for code completion.

GitHub Copilot Pro is designed for individual developers, freelancers, students, educators, and open source maintainers. The plan includes all the features of GitHub Copilot Business except organizational license management, policy management, and IP indemnity.

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January 31, 2024 - Unlock the latest productivity enhancements in Visual Studio 2023, featuring Spell Checker, All-In-One Search, Markdown support, and more. Dive into the newest features from versions 17.5 to 17.9 Preview 1, designed to streamline your coding ...
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3 days ago - GitHub Copilot integrates with leading editors, including Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, JetBrains IDEs, and Neovim, and, unlike other AI coding assistants, is natively built into GitHub.
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I am with @HrumHrum , I need to decide whether to upgrade my team's legacy 2015 VS solutions to work with 2019 or wait for the next VS release. It would be nice to have a ball park date for the next release of Visual Studio. As a side note, it's sad to see what appears to be Microsoft's abandonment of their development support for .Net and Windows OS specific development tools in favor of VS Code/NodeJs/NPM open source stack. The one thing that Steve Ballmer got right was his "Developers, developers, developers..." address at the MS yearly company meeting a decade or more ago at Safeco field (I was an MS blue badge back then and I was there). If you want to promote your OS/Cloud offerings, expand and support your developer community, that was Ballmer's message and that strategy worked. While I'm on a roll here, deprecating the Visual Studio Load Test Framework was a huge mistake IMO (I still use the Load Test framework - world class perf/load/scale test tool and you can drive it with C# which is a language far superior to NodeJs IMO but don't get me started just look at how many data type possibilities there that result in a dynamic type conversion in JavaScript and the introduction of the +++ operator, geez what a joke, anyhow I digress.). The team that supported the Load Testing Framework may not have proven that their work pays for the cost of their development but the problem is that Microsoft does not appear to be measuring the indirect revenues related to developers who choose, evangelize and support Microsoft products.

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October 2023 (version 1.84)
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r/VisualStudio on Reddit: Do you think there will be a new Visual Studio version?
February 24, 2024 -

Hi,

the title says it all: Do you think there will be a new visual studio version like vs 24, vs 25, ...? And why?

I have the assumption that Visual Studio will be replaced by Visual Studio Code, but I can't find any official information

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Visual Studio's Full Year in Review (2023) - Visual Studio Blog
March 18, 2024 - Mads Kristensen: 2023 – a year of community experiments · Leah Tran: Visual Studio productivity features in 2023
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August 2023 (version 1.82)
November 3, 2021 - Welcome to the August 2023 release of Visual Studio Code.
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May 2023 (version 1.79)
November 3, 2021 - Welcome to the May 2023 release of Visual Studio Code.
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r/VisualStudio on Reddit: Plans for VS2024?
April 13, 2023 -

Does anyone know plans for VS 2024 amd how to a be a part of the thats working on such projects.

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February 26, 2023 - 202K subscribers in the dotnet community. .NET Community, if you are using C#, VB.NET, F#, or anything running with .NET... you are at the right…
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December 9, 2025 - Your Visual Studio Professional subscription includes Azure DevOps, a collection of services to plan, build and ship applications faster, to any cloud or on-premises.