📢 Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 now available, contains new features and improvements

The latest version of Visual Studio 2019 adds Git Productivity features. You can now commit changes with the keyboard shortcut CTRL + Enter. You can now push all your tags from the Git Changes window. You can now check out a branch by double-clicking on the branch in the Git Repository window.

If you are using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), you can now run and debug your .NET Core console and web applications in WSL 2 from the latest version of Visual Studio 2019.

Visual Studio 2019 version 16.9 adds some new refactoring suggestions. This adds the ability to suggest using new(...) in non-contentious scenarios. To use this feature, place your cursor on the field declaration, and press CTRL + . (dot) to trigger the Quick Actions and Refactorings menu. Then select Use 'new(...)' menu item.

The latest Quick Actions and Refactorings menu now also suggests you remove the redundant equality expressions for C# and Visual Basic if any.

The Syntax Visualizer, which comes with the .NET Compiler Platform SDK, now shows you the current foreground color for enhanced colors. You can now enforce the .NET Code Style for all builds.

Apart from these, Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 also adds several more new features and improvements. To learn more about the latest changes, you would like to visit the official release notes.