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Large C# and VB solutions load significantly faster in 15.5 update

November 20, 2017 Nov 20, 2017 11/20/17
ScriptingGuy1
On average, 50 percent of all solutions opened by Visual Studio users open in ten seconds or less. However, large solutions can take longer to load because there are a lot of projects that Visual Studio needs to process. Over the last six months, we looked at ways to make solution load much faster, even for large solutions. We are happy to ...

Managing Secrets Securely in the Cloud

November 17, 2017 Nov 17, 2017 11/17/17
ScriptingGuy1
You’ve probably heard some version of the story about a developer who mistakenly checked in his AWS S3 key to Github. He pulled the key within 5 minutes but still racked up a multi-thousand dollar bill from bots that crawl open source sites looking for secrets. As developers we all understand and care about keeping dev and production secrets...

Test Experience Improvements

November 16, 2017 Nov 16, 2017 11/16/17
ScriptingGuy1
There have been several significant improvements to the test experience that range across Visual Studio and Visual Studio Team Services. These efforts involved frameworks and tooling for both .NET and C++, but all had a common goal: make testing with our developer tools a great experience. .NET Side-by-side Performance Comparison These ...