Visual Studio 2019 Preview

Microsoft has recently released the preview version of Visual Studio
2019. Like all previous editions, the latest Visual Studio comes with lots
of improvements and new features that are focused on faster execution,
more productivity for developers and team collaboration.
If you haven’t downloaded it yet, you can do it here for free: Visual Studio
2019 preview. You can then easily install and run it alongside any other
edition of Visual Studio – they won’t interfere with each other and this
won’t require any considerable upgrades of your OS. You can
also download Visual Studio 2019 RC (Release Candidate) from the
official website.
Now, let’s dig into the most important features and improvements in
Visual Studio 2019
New Start Screen
The first thing we notice after opening VS 2019 is the start screen’s
completely new look. This new start screen provides us with the
following four options on the right side:
Clone or check out code
Open a project or solution
Open a local folder and
Create a new project
With the help of these options presented in a simple dialog box, we will
be able to directly perform the
following activities:
Clone repositories
Open previous projects
Create new projects
Navigate and open folders
At the bottom right corner, you can find an option called “Continue
without code”. When chosen, this will dismiss the window and opens
Visual studio 2019 without any solutions. Alternatively, you can hit the
ESC button to do the same thing.
Create Project
Visual studio 2019 has a completely new project creation window.
However, it provides almost the same functionality present in VS 2017.
Here, we have multiple filtering options like the filter search textbox,
language (C++, C#, Java, Java script,etc.), platform (Android, Azure, iOS,
Linux, Xbox,etc.) and project type (Cloud, console, Machine learning,
etc.).
Let’s look at these in more detail:

1.Text search
box
2.Language (C++, C#, Java, Java script,etc.)
3.Platform (Android, Azure, iOS, Linux, Xbox,etc.)

4.Project type (Cloud, console, Machine learning, etc.)
Here, you will be able to find and install new templates and select the
project type. Once this is done, Visual Studio will take you to the new
project configuration screen. You will need to choose the project’s
location and name. Based on which project you selected, different
project configuration screens can be shown.
For example:
Let’s create a console application.
First, search ‘console’, select “Console App” and then click the “Next”
button:
Then the configuration screen will be opened. Here, we have to set the project
name and target framework and then click Create.
When the project is created, the Visual Studio 2019 user interface will be
opened. Here is how Visual Studio looks when loaded with a .NET Core
console application setting.
Better Search
Another new thing worth mentioning is the updated search box. It
allows us to quickly access nearly anything in Visual Studio. This feature
is simple, fast and more effective than in the IDE’s previous editions.
Now, search results are updated in real time as you type. You can also
see the corresponding keyboard shortcuts while searching, so you will
be able to memorize and effectively retain them for future use.
We can also search for settings, components, documentation, project

code as well.
Visual Studio Live Share

This feature allows us to easily share our codebase and collaborate with
our teammates when developing applications. No matter how far away
the members of your team are located from each other, you can use Live
Share to achieve real-time collaborative development.
To use this feature, you and your teammates must sign into Visual
Studio. Through Live Share, a teammate can read, navigate, edit, and
debug the codebase you shared with your team, and do so seamlessly
and securely. In Visual Studio 2019 Preview, this feature is installed by
default.
Once the Live Share document is ready, you will see a “Sharing” menu
and an invitation link. You can copy and then share this link with your
teammate so that they can join the live session by navigating to File >
Join Collaboration Session and entering the Shareable Invitation Link.
One-click code cleanup
Another new option can be found while a document is opened in Visual
Studio – this option indicates the current document’s health. It will also
display the summary of all warnings, errors, and suggestions when you
hover over the yellow bulb icon.
You can run code clean-up and configure its settings by right-clicking
the broom icon and selecting the corresponding option.
When you choose Configure Code Cleanup, the configuration menu
window will be opened. There, you can see two profiles to which you can
add or remove filters. They also allow multiple cleanup configuration at
the same time. You can choose whatever profile you want, but don’t add
multiple profiles at this time. This feature will be useful when we set up
multiple filters for a solution that includes both back-end and front-end
projects.
Select any available filter you need, click the ^ up arrow to add it and
then click OK.
Now you can run Code cleanup for the selected profile you selected.
Click the broom icon again and select Run Code Cleanup (Profile 1).
Here, we will be able to sort the usings at the top of the auto-generated
file and remove the unnecessary ones. This is probably one of the most
exciting new features in Visual Studio 2019.
Debugger improvement
In Visual Studio 2019, we can quickly find our variables and their
properties by using a new feature called search in the Watch, Autos, and
Locals windows while debugging the code.
With the help of this newly added search feature, we can highlight and
navigate to particular values contained within the name, type, and value
columns of each watch window.
We will also be able to change how a value is displayed within the Auto,
Locals, and Watch windows. To do that, double-click any item in any of
these windows and add a “,” (comma) to get to the drop-down list of
feasible format specifiers, each of them coming with a tooltip that lets
you know about their functionality.
Manage Pull Requests (PRs)

Microsoft have introduced a new extension that we can download and
use with VS 2019. Through this new extension, we can review the code to
run and debug our team’s pull requests without leaving the Visual
Studio IDE.
Currently, this feature supports code from Azure Repos, but we can
expect support for GitHub and better overall experience. To try this
feature out, download the Pull Requests for Visual Studio extension from
the VS Marketplace.
In Visual Studio, we can find this pull request feature under the Team
Explorer. Click on Pull Request – a new window with more details will be
opened.
Develop with .NET Core 3 Preview

The Visual Studio 2019 preview supports .NET Core 3 application
building for any platform. To test and work with this feature, you would
first need to download the .NET Core 3.0 SDK. Microsoft would like to
continue supporting this and improve cross-platform C++ development
and .NET mobile development for Android and iOS with Xamarin.
PMA (Per Monitor Aware) Rendering
This feature will allow Visual Studio to render properly while working
with a remote machine or on a projector. We can enable this feature in
the Tools – Preview Feature submenu. This feature’s minimum
requirements are Windows 10 Version 1803 and .NET Framework 4.8.
Visual Studio IntelliCode

IntelliCode is a VS 2019 extension that improves the software
development process by using advanced algorithms that tailor the
completion list to best serve your particular style of coding conventions
and promote common practices. When installed, IntelliCode will draw its
power from thousands of highly rated open-source GitHub projects to
enhance and streamline your coding efforts.
Summary
The features and improvements we discussed will enhance developer
productivity and team collaboration in Visual Studio 2019 compared to
previous editions. There is a new start screen which allows you to decide
on the specifics of how you want to start working – and you will be able
to do it quickly and easily. Also, the user interface is now much cleaner,
with an updated search bar that provides an ability to reach the place or
information you’re looking for in a flash. The project creation wizard
was completely re-imagined. Debugging is now up to 50% faster than
before and we have access to a highly functional search bar in the
Watch, Autos, and Locals windows.
I tried my best to distill the most important features introduced in Visual
Studio 2019. However, there are many other improvements in various
areas, and covering their entirety would be difficult. To check them all
out for yourself and to get acquainted with Visual Studio’s new edition in
general, you can download the latest version from the official website.
Feel free to share what new features you thought are the most exciting!

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Microsoft has recently released the preview version of Visual Studio

Let’s look at these in more detail:

3.Platform (Android, Azure, iOS, Linux, Xbox,etc.)

We can also search for settings, components, documentation, project

Visual Studio Live Share

Manage Pull Requests (PRs)

Develop with .NET Core 3 Preview

Visual Studio IntelliCode

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