Today marked the release of Microsoft’s seminal IDE Visual Studio 2019. It is available for download right now at https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/. The community edition of Visual Studio 2019 is completely free to use so long as your company makes less than $1M USD annually or has > 250 PCs. Free trials for the Professional and Enterprise versions are also available. For more details on the differences between versions, be sure to check here.
There are several new improvements and features available in Visual Studio 2019 including improved performance and start up times, a new AI driven code tool called IntelliCode, .NET core 3.0 support, C# data breakpoints, tighter integration with GitHub and Azure, multiple improvements to mobile development using Xamarin, a new remote coding interface called Live Code and much more. You can read the complete Visual Studio 2019 release notes here.
Visual Studio 2019 for Mac also received a new release, including intellisense support taken directly from Visual Studio. You can read the full release notes here and download here. (be sure to click the MacOS tab if required).
You can watch a condensed to under 10 minute version of the keynote in the video below. In addition to the keynote, Microsoft have a series of training materials and more in-depth sessions available at https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/vs2019-launch/.