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Visual Studio 2026 Fundamentals

Visual Studio 2026 is a major IDE redesign with new AI capabilities and a refreshed UI. This course will teach you to navigate the interface, manage solutions and projects, configure builds, and work faster with editor features and AI development tools.

Beginner
1h 56m

Created by Matthew Kruczek

Last Updated Jun 26, 2026

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Visual Studio 2026 Fundamentals

Visual Studio 2026 is a major IDE redesign with new AI capabilities and a refreshed UI. This course will teach you to navigate the interface, manage solutions and projects, configure builds, and work faster with editor features and AI development tools.

Beginner
1h 56m

Created by Matthew Kruczek

Last Updated Jun 26, 2026

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Visual Studio 2026 is a ground-up redesign of Microsoft’s flagship IDE, with Fluent UI, AI-native Copilot integration, and major performance improvements. In this course, Visual Studio 2026 Fundamentals, you’ll learn to work productively in VS 2026 as your primary development environment. First, you’ll explore where Visual Studio fits in the modern .NET ecosystem and how to install and configure it for your workflow. Next, you’ll discover how to navigate the redesigned interface, manage solutions and projects, and configure builds and dependencies. Finally, you’ll learn to work more efficiently with editor productivity features like IntelliSense, code navigation, snippets, and AI-assisted tools, including Copilot completions and Adaptive Paste. When you’re finished with this course, you’ll have the skills and knowledge needed to confidently build .NET applications in Visual Studio 2026.

Visual Studio 2026 Fundamentals
Beginner
1h 56m
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Matthew Kruczek - Pluralsight course - Visual Studio 2026 Fundamentals
Matthew Kruczek
18 courses 4.5 author rating 707 ratings

Matt Kruczek is the Chief Technical Officer at Tallan. Matt has extensive experience in the software industry and is responsible for creating and maintaining any and all architectures and strategies pertaining to the mobile, web and AI disciplines. He has architected and developed several end-to-end Line of Business applications using a variety of Microsoft Technologies including WCF, WPF, ASP.NET , C#, VB, MVC, SQL Server, Microsoft Bot Framework and Entity Framework.

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