2 weeks ago - Visual Studio 2026 Insiders makes transitioning seamless, offering side-by-side installation with VS2022 and full compatibility with existing workloads.

September 9, 2025 - "Hey so Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is out, and it's very exciting, but if you edit Razor files I have a personal favour to ask. For the last ~18 months I, and a few of my friends, have been working on a new foundation for the Razor editor called ...

1 week ago - We've made several improvements to the Hot Reload experience in Visual Studio. Thanks to co-hosting the Razor compiler inside the Roslyn process, editing a .razor file during Hot Reload is much faster and more efficient (addressing prior feedback where Blazor Hot Reload could take tens of seconds).

3 weeks ago - Once enabled, you can delegate tasks directly from Visual Studio. The Cloud Agent drafts changes for you to review, so you can stay focused on building and debugging the core of your project instead of handling tedious edits. We're actively improving this experience based on your feedback. Soon, you'll see direct pull request links inside Visual Studio, making it even easier to review agent-generated changes without breaking your flow.

September 11, 2025 - Visual Studio 2026 Insiders: Here’s the Good, the Bad, and the WTF From performance boosts and AI features to bloat and redesign headaches, here’s everything you need to know about Visual Studio …

November 11, 2025 - Visual Studio 2026 changes all that. Now the IDE is decoupled from its build tools, so you can update Visual Studio itself any time you want without affecting your .NET or C++ compilers. Even better, you’ll get automatic monthly updates with fresh features, design tweaks, and productivity boosts delivered right to your IDE, while keeping your toolchains stable for as long as you need. If you like to try out new features before everyone else, the Insiders Channel is for you.

November 14, 2025 - Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2026 (Insiders), the preview version of the new Visual Studio. Here are my findings and personal opinions.

October 8, 2025 - The developer asked if there was a way to see specific improvements beyond bug fixes in each release. Kristensen replied, "No, not since we moved to Insiders. You'll lose that fidelity until GA, but then it won't be an issue afterwards." [Click on image for larger view.] Visual Studio 2026 (source: Ramel).

October 3, 2025 - Mads Kristensen, principal PM for Visual Studio, will kick things off in a keynote address titled "The Road to Visual Studio 2026: Building a Faster, Smarter IDE." But that's just the beginning, according to Microsoft's Jim Harrer.

October 2, 2025 - Using Native TypeScript in Visual Studio 2026 Developers using the new Visual Studio 2026 Insiders build can now try out these improvements directly. To use the preview in Visual Studio 2026, Microsoft advises editing a project's package.json file to replace the typescript package with @typescript/native-preview.

September 10, 2025 - Monthly updates with the latest performance improvements, design refinements, and AI innovations · Faster feedback loop between Microsoft and the developer community ... You can install Visual Studio 2026 Insiders alongside your existing VS2022 ...

September 9, 2025 - Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here with AI integration, blazing fast performance, Fluent UI design, and a new Insiders Channel for early features.

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September 10, 2025 - While we’ve already explored the new features—including Copilot and Profiler, updated modern themes, and a completely redesigned Settings page—I’d like to take a moment to share some insights from scanning the Visual Studio 2026 Insider Preview assemblies with NDepend.

September 26, 2025 - Microsoft just launched Visual Studio 2026 Insiders with significant improvements to AI integration, performance diagnostics, and interface…

September 15, 2025 - Microsoft has launched its Insiders preview program for Visual Studio 2026, providing insights into what developers can expect from the upcoming release.

September 30, 2025 - Visual Studio 2026 Insiders was released on 9th Instant. It is a huge change from 2022 and 2022 Preview. This is the new screen. You cannot upload VSIX files to this version, yet, it rejects them, there must be a significant change in VSIX structure.

September 10, 2025 - I presume 2015 ABI is to have a universal, single installation for runtimes from 2015 to 2026. All of these are built upon the Universal C Runtime, which shipped in Windows 10 and was an update bundled in the redists until 14.50 for older operating systems. ... For me it will require only changing the OS version check from Windows 7 SP1 to Windows 10 minumum. ... I have installed the insiders build and I am pleasantly surprised how the installation and the first minutes went well. Getting the extensions from Visual Studio 2022 was a definitive plus: I was ready to use VS 2026 immediately.

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is available now via the new Insiders Channel.