Tag : Performance

Performance Improvements in NuGet

Nikolche Kolev April 7, 2021 Apr 7, 2021 04/7/21

With each new release of Visual Studio comes a plethora of performance improvements when restoring NuGet packages, managing project dependencies, and browsing for the next great package to include in your solution.

Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 Preview 3 is Available Today

Jacqueline Widdis January 20, 2021 Jan 20, 2021 01/20/21

Visual Studio 2019 v16.9 Preview 3 releases today. Highlights of this release include additional functionality in C++, .NET Productivity, XAML Tools, and Accessibility. Check out the new features today!

Java on Visual Studio Code June Update

Xiaokai He June 24, 2019 Jun 24, 2019 06/24/19

Welcome to the June update of Java on Visual Studio Code! Earlier this month, we shared our new Java Installer for Visual Studio Code, which aims to help new Java developers to get their environment ready and start coding in just a few clicks. In this update, we’d like to share a couple new features and enhancements delivered during last ...

Dependency Autocompletion, Performance Improvements and More for Java on Visual Studio Code

Xiaokai He February 26, 2019 Feb 26, 2019 02/26/19

Welcome to February update of Java on Visual Studio Code! We'd like to share a few new improvements to further enhance your productivity, including Try these new features by installing Java Extension Pack with Visual Studio Code. See below for more details! Managing your Maven Dependencies Easily ...

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8

John Montgomery August 14, 2018 Aug 14, 2018 08/14/18

Today we are releasing Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8. In this version we have focused on productivity, performance and bug fixes. There are many new features you‘ll find useful, but in this post, I’ll underscore the highlights you may be most interested in. For the complete list of all the updates in today’s release, check out the ...

How to Convince Your Management to Upgrade to Visual Studio 2017 for C# and C++ Developers

Kasey Uhlenhuth July 31, 2018 Jul 31, 2018 07/31/18

Visual Studio 2017 is our best IDE yet. To help you write great code, it’s packed with new Refactorings and Quick Actions, and offers unit testing, debugging, navigation, and code style improvements. It loads solutions faster than ever, and ships with C# 7.3 and the MSVC compiler toolset that conforms to the latest C++ standards.

Improving the responsiveness of critical scenarios by updating auto load behavior for extensions

Mads Kristensen May 16, 2018 May 16, 2018 05/16/18

The Visual Studio team partners with extension authors to provide a productive development environment for users, who rely on a rich ecosystem of quality extensions. Today, we're introducing an update to extension auto load based on feedback from our community of developers, who need to quickly start Visual Studio and load their solution while...

Load solutions faster with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6

Viktor Veis April 4, 2018 Apr 4, 2018 04/4/18

As we have been working to improve the solution load experience in Visual Studio 2017, you may have read our blog about these improvements in version 15.5. With version 15.6, we have introduced parallel project load, which loads large .NET solutions twice as fast as earlier versions when you reload the same solution. This video compares the ...

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6, Visual Studio for Mac version 7.4 Released

John Montgomery March 6, 2018 Mar 6, 2018 03/6/18

Today, we released updates to both Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio for Mac. Start your download now while you browse the rest of this post: download Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6 or Visual Studio for Mac. We’ll trigger the update notification flag in the tools in the coming days.

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.5, Visual Studio for Mac Released

John Montgomery December 4, 2017 Dec 4, 2017 12/4/17

Today we released significant updates to both Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio for Mac. This update contains major performance improvements, new features, as well as fixes for bugs reported by you. Some highlights are mentioned below, for the full feature list check out the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 Release notes.

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