Visual Studio 2026 Insiders
Visual Studio 2026 is now available for insiders to evaluate and marks Microsoft's most ambitious steps forward for Visual Studio. Microsoft MVPs were given an exclusive insight into this latest version of Visual Studio and now everyone else can see the improvements and additions that have been made with the Insiders channel, replacing the long-standing Preview channel, allowing developers to gain early access to upcoming features of Visual Studio. Visual Studio 2026 weaves AI directly into the workflow for developers, expectation resetting performance improvements for speed at enterprise scale along with a modern design that makes Visual Studio feel lighter and focused. You can download Visual Studio 2026 Insiders now at visualstudio.microsoft.com/insiders.
Visual Studio 2026 is now faster and more intuitive and designed to support working at your best without getting in the way and with Copilot, your AI coding partner, it can understand your work with full context across your solution, repository and tools to help you move faster, think bigger and build confidently. Visual Studio 2026 offers a seamless upgrade experience with side-by-side installation with support for using your existing Visual Studio 2022 configuration to mirror existing workloads built for modern development and future-ready for .NET along with compatibility for existing extensions from Visual Studio 2022. Visual Studio 2026 comes with a fresh modern design featuring Fluent Design with updated icons and a refreshed UI that brings a cleaner and sharper user interface that's easier on the eye and designed to keep you in the flow with full-stack support from .NET 10 to modern C++ along with cloud and AI solutions.
Visual Studio 2026 is already a much faster and enhanced experience that its predecessor of Visual Studio 2022 and having used Visual Studio since the original Visual Studio 97 it is great to see what an achievement this latest version is with much faster load times and perceptible differences between it and Visual Studio 2022 will have you wanting to stay longer with this new Insiders release, especially when developing with the capabilities of the upcoming .NET 10. Visual Studio 2026 is well thought out with clearer icons and a cleaner user interface that's perfect for those light mode developers like myself or those who prefer dark mode and other themes will find the experience of using this latest Visual Studio a pleasure, with so many improvements to check out now that it is available for everyone you need to give it a go now!
Source: Microsoft - Dev Blogs - Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here!