Visual Studio 2026 release notes:
We're excited to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2026 Insiders. This release marks the beginning of a new era for Visual Studio with deep platform integration of AI, stronger fundamentals, and improved performance.
Download Visual Studio 2026 Insiders to enjoy these new features and improvements.
Features
Released on September 9, 2025.Productivity
- Enhanced editor controls
- File exclusions in search
- Bring your own model to chat
- Adaptive paste
- Copilot actions in your context menu
- Did you mean?
- Mermaid chart rendering
- Copilot URL context
- Better Copilot responses
- Profiler Copilot Agent
- BenchmarkDotNet project template
- CMake diagnostics just leveled up
- Optimize zero-length array with Copilot
- New Profiler launch experience
- Inline post-return values
- Search in Text Visualizer
- Inline pull request comments
- Better code reviews Al
- Git context in Copilot Chat
- Code coverage
- New look and feel
- Modern settings experience
- Cloud Services (extended support) deprecation
- Service Fabric tools update
- .NET 10 and C# 14
- Hot Reload improvements
- Razor editor improvements
- Toolset Windows support
- C++ feature deprecations and removals
- C++ STL updates
- Class View improvement
- Project template updates
- Syntax highlighting for C++ attributes
- clang-tidy improvements
Happy coding!
The Visual Studio team
Read more:
Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here! - Visual Studio Blog
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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Visual Studio Insiders release notes
Get the latest pre-release features, bug fixes, and support for Visual Studio Insiders. Download today.
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Visual Studio 2026 Insiders - Faster, smarter IDE
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