Visual Studio Roadmap

Visual Studio (VS) is a Windows-based integrated development environment (IDE) that provides graphical tools for designing, coding, debugging, and testing software. It can be used to create managed applications based on Microsoft’s .NET runtimes and languages, such as C#, and traditional, unmanaged C and C++ applications. It can also be used to build cross-platform Android and iOS mobile applications and C++ applications that target Linux. Other languages and platforms are supported with extensions. VS includes extensive integration with Azure to help developers leverage the Microsoft-hosted cloud platform and with GitHub, Azure DevOps, and Git to help developers work with source control and application life-cycle management services.

Product: Visual Studio

Licensing: Visual Studio Licensing

Near Term (2025–2026)

VS 2022, the latest major version, became generally available in Nov. 2021.

Features added in recent minor updates to VS 2022 include the following:

GitHub Copilot Agent mode is available as a preview. This mode allows developers to assign tasks to the Copilot, such as updating code and adding features. The tasks are completed asynchronously in the background.