Visual Studio 2019 pushes the boundaries of individual and team productivity. We hope that you will find these new capabilities compelling and start your upgrade to Visual Studio 2019 soon.
As you are considering this upgrade, rest assured that Visual Studio 2019 makes it distinctively easy to move your codebase from previous versions of Visual Studio. This post captures the reasons why your upgrade to Visual Studio 2019 will be pain-free.
- You can install the latest IDE side-by-side with any older VS versions
- You can continue building your C++ code with the MSVC v140 (VS 2015.3) or v141 (VS 2017) toolsets
- You can upgrade to the latest MSVC v142 (VS 2019) and maintain binary compatibility with any of your 3rd party libraries that haven’t migrated yet
- Regardless of the toolset you’re on, you get access to the full collection of OSS libraries available in Vcpkg