Visual Studio 2026 Preview is here!

A new version of Visual Studio is materializing, and the first preview is now live! The next version of Visual Studio, which we’re talking about in an earlier article, isn’t called Visual Studio 2025, as you may think. The name of this version of Visual Studio set to revolutionize your whole development experience is called…

Visual Studio 2026!

You can see the below video that talks about the future of Visual Studio, which tells you what Visual Studio 2026 will introduce.

Please note that the features and the appearances shown in the below video are based on an internal build of Visual Studio 2026 (you can tell from the “INT PREVIEW” badge) and may not reflect their state in the final version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQaZytCQsLEu0026amp;ab_channel=MicrosoftVisualStudio

First of all, a new logo has been revealed for Visual Studio 2026, and it has a more modern look than before. Gradients in the logo are now more visible than the Visual Studio 2022 logo.

When the first preview gets released hopefully before November, there will be over 5,000+ bugs fixed and over 300+ feature requests to be implemented across the entire Visual Studio 2026 suite. Additionally, updates have become a monthly update cadence, and this is currently being experimented with Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14.

Visual Studio 2026 will still use the legacy .NET Framework that is exclusive to Windows in its main process, but it will stay at 64-bit as 32-bit computers reduce in popularity.

Visual Studio 2026 will have a more modern UI that was teased to us in Visual Studio 2022 since two years ago. A more fluent design will be used to reduce visual clutter and to increase productivity. UI annoyances will be resolved to further maximize space and to improve user productivity.

You will be able to theme your Visual Studio 2026 installation to further make it your own, to place your own colors to your IDE in your style. Theme creation will also become easier than ever.

You will be able to build .NET 10 applications using Visual Studio 2026 to make them benefit from new features and to increase their performance.

To learn more, check out this excellent blog article from NDepend here.

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Visual Studio 2025 is now Visual Studio 2026!

A new version of Visual Studio is materializing, and the first preview is set to be released soon. The next version of Visual Studio, which we’re talking about in an earlier article, isn’t called Visual Studio 2025, as you may think. The name of this version of Visual Studio set to revolutionize your whole development experience is called…

Visual Studio 2026!

You can see the below video that talks about the future of Visual Studio, which tells you what Visual Studio 2026 will introduce.

Please note that the features and the appearances shown in the below video are based on an internal build of Visual Studio 2026 (you can tell from the “INT PREVIEW” badge) and may not reflect their state in the final version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQaZytCQsLE&ab_channel=MicrosoftVisualStudio

First of all, a new logo has been revealed for Visual Studio 2026, and it has a more modern look than before. Gradients in the logo are now more visible than the Visual Studio 2022 logo.

When the first preview gets released hopefully before November, there will be over 5,000+ bugs fixed and over 300+ feature requests to be implemented across the entire Visual Studio 2026 suite. Additionally, updates have become a monthly update cadence, and this is currently being experimented with Visual Studio 2022 version 17.14.

Visual Studio 2026 will still use the legacy .NET Framework that is exclusive to Windows in its main process, but it will stay at 64-bit as 32-bit computers reduce in popularity.

Visual Studio 2026 will have a more modern UI that was teased to us in Visual Studio 2022 since two years ago. A more fluent design will be used to reduce visual clutter and to increase productivity. UI annoyances will be resolved to further maximize space and to improve user productivity.

You will be able to theme your Visual Studio 2026 installation to further make it your own, to place your own colors to your IDE in your style. Theme creation will also become easier than ever.

You will be able to build .NET 10 applications using Visual Studio 2026 to make them benefit from new features and to increase their performance.

To learn more, check out this excellent blog article from NDepend here.

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Visual Studio 2025 is very close!

Visual Studio 2025 is now called Visual Studio 2026! Check it out here.

When Visual Studio 2022 version v17.14 was released, a blog post that was related to the release has teased the next major version of Visual Studio as follows:

Lastly, we’ve started work on the next major version of Visual Studio, planned for release later this year. We’ll be sharing more details here soon—follow the blog to stay up to date with the latest Visual Studio news.

This is especially true, since Visual Studio 2025 will be announced very soon later this summer to introduce major features and to introduce a redesigned UI that matches the Windows 11 aesthetics.

This is one hint, but we have two more hints to talk about.

Usually, Microsoft releases a preview of the next Visual Studio minor version at about the same time as the final official release of the minor version that was previously in the preview stage. For example, when Visual Studio v16.13 was released this February, the first preview of v16.14 was also released at the same day of the former version release. An interesting hint has been pointed out when Microsoft decided not to release Visual Studio v16.15 Preview 1 at the same day of the v16.14 release, because the Visual Studio 2022 preview release notes says this:

Visual Studio 2022 v17.14 is now generally available (see release notes). However, we recommend that all current Preview Channel users stay on Preview to continue receiving the latest updates and early access to upcoming features. This is especially important if you’re using the .NET 10 SDK, as some preview SDK features are not yet supported in the stable release.

Stay tuned for more details later this summer about what’s coming next for Visual Studio…

Another hint mentions that we are approaching closer to the Visual Studio 2022 mainstream support ending date, which is assigned to January 12th, 2027, and there are no announcements of the next major version of Visual Studio made until now. This is interesting, considering that Visual Studio 2022 went globally available as version v17.0 was released on November 8th, 2021, after a five-month preview that started June 19th, 2021.

This means that we are heading towards a major milestone four years after the last major milestone, and that Visual Studio 2025 v18.0 will undergo many major changes, which will improve developer experience. We expect the first preview to be released this summer, with the final release being on November 2025 with the airing of .NET 10.0 LTS.

This follows a similar pattern with the release of Visual Studio 2022 with .NET 6.0 LTS together on November 8th, 2021.

We are very excited about the release of Visual Studio 2025 v18.0 and .NET 10.0.

What does it mean for our apps?

Our applications will be migrated to .NET 10.0 days after the final release to ensure that all systems can get this version of .NET easily, while we’re monitoring the rollout of this version of .NET across several Linux distributions, including Ubuntu.

Our applications, once migrated to .NET 10, will experience improved performance and better support for various features. This is part of our goal to provide better user experience across releases of projects like Nitrocid KS.

The next major version of Nitrocid, which will be released early next year, will use this version of .NET and will require at least Visual Studio 2025 to build, to ensure that we use this version of .NET at its maximum potential.

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