Tag : Performance

Java on Visual Studio Code June Update

Xiaokai HeJune 24, 2019Jun 24, 201906/24/19

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 HeFebruary 26, 2019Feb 26, 201902/26/19

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 MontgomeryAugust 14, 2018Aug 14, 201808/14/18

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 UhlenhuthJuly 31, 2018Jul 31, 201807/31/18

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 KristensenMay 16, 2018May 16, 201805/16/18

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 VeisApril 4, 2018Apr 4, 201804/4/18

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 MontgomeryMarch 6, 2018Mar 6, 201803/6/18

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 MontgomeryDecember 4, 2017Dec 4, 201712/4/17

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.

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

Viktor VeisNovember 20, 2017Nov 20, 201711/20/17

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 ...

Test Experience Improvements

Visual Studio BlogNovember 16, 2017Nov 16, 201711/16/17

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 ...

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