Following a naming convention similar to Windows, Microsoft has released the first Insider build for Visual Studio 2026.

The company announced that GPT-5 is now integrated into the IDE, and support for MCP is generally available as well.

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Adding MCP support to Visual Studio, according to Stephanie Walter, analyst at HyperFRAME Research, will boost developer productivity and integration flexibility.

Embarcadero will offer next month an upgrade to its Delphi Prism platform, enabling Object Pascal-based development in Microsoft's newly shipping Visual Studio 2010 IDE.