---
title: "Visual Studio 2026 is here: faster, smarter, and a hit with early adopters"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/visual-studio-2026-is-here-faster-smarter-and-a-hit-with-early-adopters-yf9ph3v01
source_url: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/visual-studio-2026-is-here-faster-smarter-and-a-hit-with-early-adopters/
type: article
source: "Visual Studio Blog"
published: 2025-11-11T16:12:42.622Z
updated: 2026-03-15T05:59:35.568Z
tags: ["c++", "github", ".net", "visual-studio"]
reading_time: 6
upvotes: 177
comments: 18
language: en
---

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# Visual Studio 2026 is here: faster, smarter, and a hit with early adopters

**[Visual Studio Blog](https://daily.dev/sources/vs)** · 6 min read · 177 upvotes · 18 comments

## Summary

Visual Studio 2026 is now generally available with significant performance improvements, including 50% fewer UI hangs and faster startup times. The release introduces AI-native features through GitHub Copilot integration, including new C# and C++ agents for debugging, profiling, and app modernization. Over 5,000 bugs were fixed and 300 feature requests implemented based on community feedback. The IDE now decouples from build tools, allowing updates without affecting .NET or C++ compilers, and maintains full compatibility with Visual Studio 2022 projects and over 4,000 extensions.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@balive053** · 5 upvotes

> Why on Earth is anyone still using Visual Studio in 2025? VS Code I can understand and is alright. But Visual Studio is horribly slow, clunky, and feels about 10 years out of date.

**@vicvondoom** · 4 upvotes

> Good, but no version for Mac...?

**@victormoni** · 2 upvotes

> Nice!!!!! 😃👍👍👍

**@luismuoz4** · 1 upvotes

> Ok but, What should do? uninstall VS 2022 and then install this one? or is there a way to upgrade VS 2022 to 2026?

**@telvinteum** · 0 upvotes

> Upgrading my . Net projects

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