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Visual Studio Preview

Be the first to access the future of Visual Studio

What's in it for me

Our pre release gives you early access to the new features not yet in Visual Studio

Try side by side

Install the preview right alongside your main release, leaving your production install undisturbed

Commmunity

Free,fully featured IDE for
students, open-source contributors
and individuals

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Professional

Free,fully featured IDE for
small teams.
Best if you have a Visual Studio Professional subscription

Enterprise

End-to-end solution for
teams of any size.
Best if you have a Visual Studio Enterprise subscription

If you use extensions, they will need to be installed for each instance of Visual Studio in a side by side install.

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Test Explorer Improvements

The Test Explorer now has significant performance and UI improvements. Visual Studio processes consume less memory and discovering large numbers of tests is faster. The updated UI includes easier filtering, more discoverable commands, and the addition of customizable columns and multi-tiered group by that let the user fine tune what test information is displayed

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What is a Preview?

Visual Studio Preview gives you early access to the latest features and improvements not yet available in the main release. By trying Preview, you can take advantage of new builds and updates that ship on a frequent cadence. For more information on Visual Studio Preview installs, visit our FAQ page.

Please note that the preview version is continously evolving and certain features may not work as expected. This version is also not licensed to build shipping applications. If you would like to build production applications you can access stable release of Visual Studio from our downloads page.

Engage with our community

We believe that to create a great product for you we should listen to and engage with you in every stage of our development.

As you evaluate what's next with Visual Studio Preview, report a bug or suggest a feature in our developer community, where you can talk directly to our product engineers. Your feedback empowers us to evolve and ensure the highest quality in our final product.

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Save install time

... in an Azure Virtual Machine

Try Visual Studio Preview in an environment that is entirely seperate from your local development machine. Preview is pre-installed on a Windows server, saving you time on your Visual Studio install process.

Activate your free Azure account and claim your Azure credits which include $200 to use in your first month.

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