A new version of Microsoft's integrated development environment (IDE) goes live today with the release of Visual Studio 2019 and its cousin Visual Studio 2019 for Mac.

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Today, Microsoft announced the general availability of Visual Studio 2019, along with Visual Studio 2019 for Mac. VS 2019 includes new features like Live Share for real-time collaboration.

Microsoft also will integrate the Visual Studio Live Share collaboration feature into both Visual Studio 2019 and Visual Studio Code, the open-source version of the commercial product.