Pull Request extension This adds a Pull Request button in the Team Explorer sidebar in Visual Studio.

These new features in the latest release of the IDE are designed to work with a wide range of programming languages and platforms - from cross-platform C applications, to.NET mobile apps for Android and iOS written using Xamarin, to cloud-native applications using Azure services.

Amanda Silver, partner director of program management at Microsoft, said the new features in Visual Studio 2019 were based on addressing the biggest pain points for developers in areas ranging from team collaboration to deploying software on multiple platforms.

A lot of people see Visual Studio as just a C or C Windows tool and really Visual Studio has expanded over the last few years to cover really any programming language for any platform.

Another improvement over Visual Studio 2017 is performance, with Silver saying the time it takes to open a project, run testing, and other common tasks should be dramatically improved.

Visual Studio 2019 launches on both Windows PC and Mac today, with the headline features for the Mac release being a new C editor, a fresh Start window, the ability to run multiple instances of Visual Studio, and new Xamarin and Unity game engine tools.

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Heres the best new features in Visual Studio 2019 and how to use them.

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Note: This article about Visual Studio 2019 is available as a free PDF download.) Visual Studio Live Share Live Share allows multiple developers to collaborate and to jointly edit the same code in Visual Studio 2019 in real time.

Up to 35 developers can work together on code at the same time and Live Share can be used to allow users of Visual Studio 2019 and the simpler Visual Studio Code editor to collaborate.

Visual Studio 2019 embeds the Live Share capability into Visual Studio by default, with a Live Share button in the IDE, as seen below on the lefthand side of the screen.

Sessions can also be made read-only, as you can see, by clicking the button in the pop-up notification.

Much like real-time document editing, you can see the edits the other person makes via a colored cursor with their name hovering over the top.

Theres also an audio channel so you can talk to those collaborating with you, if you wish.

Live Share can also be augmented using third-party extensions, such as the OzCode C debugging extension and the CodeStream commenting and discussion platform.

Smarter IntelliCode Visual Studio 2019 upgrades IntelliCodes intelligent suggestions, with a wider range of AI-powered assistance for the autocomplete and auto-formatting feature.

The IntelliCode upgrade means suggestions will be personalized to each user, giving them recommendations based on their code.

Were really trying to make sure you can write the most productive code as quickly as you possibly can and that you can learn from what your team and others are writing as you type, said Silver.

You can see the new IntelliCode feature in action below, and how it uses a trained machine learning model to predict the most likely item to be inserted at a particular point in the code.

For example, clicking inside the parentheses when calling a method might prompt IntelliCode to suggest a likely parameter to pass to that method, in the example below correctly suggesting the appropriate first parameter would be the banana variable holding an instance of the Banana class.

IntelliCode will also now work with the XAML and C languages.

New search The new Visual Studio search box, seen at the top of the screen, is designed to find anything in Visual Studio -- including menu items, tool windows, settings, and more.

Code Cleanup Visual Studio can be configured to check your code against the code style that you or your team has defined, using the new Code Cleanup feature.

To configure Code Cleanup, click on the tiny arrow next to the broom icon at the bottom of Visual Studio and select Configure Code Cleanup.

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