Newer version of Visual Studio release plans (2021, 2022, 2023 - major version)

HrumHrum 76 Reputation points
2021-01-19T05:42:11.263+00:00

Sorry for possibly stupid question, but I didn't find any MS plans about new vesion release.
I would like to update old 2017 VS in my company to the newest one, but looks like 2019 is not so fresh and newer version is on the way (possibly).
So, the question is - anybody knows MS plans about next VS version?

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  1. Vance McCorkle 81 Reputation points
    2021-04-28T20:31:16.83+00:00

    I am with @HrumHrum , I need to decide whether to upgrade my team's legacy 2015 VS solutions to work with 2019 or wait for the next VS release. It would be nice to have a ball park date for the next release of Visual Studio. As a side note, it's sad to see what appears to be Microsoft's abandonment of their development support for .Net and Windows OS specific development tools in favor of VS Code/NodeJs/NPM open source stack. The one thing that Steve Ballmer got right was his "Developers, developers, developers..." address at the MS yearly company meeting a decade or more ago at Safeco field (I was an MS blue badge back then and I was there). If you want to promote your OS/Cloud offerings, expand and support your developer community, that was Ballmer's message and that strategy worked. While I'm on a roll here, deprecating the Visual Studio Load Test Framework was a huge mistake IMO (I still use the Load Test framework - world class perf/load/scale test tool and you can drive it with C# which is a language far superior to NodeJs IMO but don't get me started just look at how many data type possibilities there that result in a dynamic type conversion in JavaScript and the introduction of the +++ operator, geez what a joke, anyhow I digress.). The team that supported the Load Testing Framework may not have proven that their work pays for the cost of their development but the problem is that Microsoft does not appear to be measuring the indirect revenues related to developers who choose, evangelize and support Microsoft products.

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  1. S.Sengupta 14,346 Reputation points MVP
    2021-01-19T05:53:06.113+00:00

    You may go through:
    Visual Studio Roadmap

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  2. Anna Xiu-MSFT 24,636 Reputation points Microsoft Vendor
    2021-01-19T07:13:28.03+00:00

    Hi @HrumHrum ,

    Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8 is the current release version. If you want to learn more about the next version for Visual Studio 2019, you can see the Preview Channel of Visual Studio 2019, which contains the same or newer features and fixes compared to the Release Channel.

    Sincerely,
    Anna

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  3. Ali Mirza 1 Reputation point
    2021-01-25T13:12:39.787+00:00

    @HrumHrum There aren't any updates about any new Visual Studio versions, but, following the trend of a new release every 4 years, I think the next version might be Visual Studio 2023. You should probably stick to Visual Studio 2019 for the time being.


  4. mprevot 1 Reputation point
    2021-03-14T14:16:15.077+00:00

    VS2019 is fresh and often updated (once per week typically) and upgraded: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/releases/2019/release-notes

    An increment in the number is merely a cosmetic thing.