Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2019 16.4, the newest version of its full integrated developer environment (IDE) that was launched in April.

Better GitHub integration and other improvements highlight the new Visual Studio 2019 Version 16.7 and first preview of v16.8.

Along with .NET 5, Microsoft today shipped Visual Studio 2019 v16.8, which sees Git turned on by default as the version control experience in the latest update of the company's flagship IDE.

The Git Experience is available as the default source control experience in Visual Studio 2019 as of version 16.8.

Microsoft has used the release to build real-time collaboration and GitHub integration directly into Visual Studio, while also making refactoring and debugging code simpler and using machine ...

Microsoft is open sourcing WPF, Windows Forms and Win UI via GitHub and making available the first public preview of Visual Studio 2019.