Microsoft this week made Visual Studio 2026 — the latest version of its flagship dev platform — generally available, calling it the most community-driven release in the IDE’s history and positioning it as the first development environment built around AI from the ground up.
Amanda Silver, corporate vice president in Microsoft’s CoreAI division, indicated that the company worked more closely with developers on this release than on any previous version.
“This is a moment we’ve built side by side with you,” wrote Mads Kristensen,…
