Microsoft launched Visual Studio Online public preview, which meshes together Visual Studio, cloud-hosted developer environments, and a web-based editor.

Microsoft announced a new data access driver for SQL Server that should be the path forward for data developers in the era of .NET Core.

Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1 for Windows and Mac, .NET Core 2.2, and .NET Core 3.0 Preview 1 at Microsoft Connect (); 2018.