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May 16, 2018
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Improving the responsiveness of critical scenarios by updating auto load behavior for extensions

Mads Kristensen
Mads Kristensen

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 defe...

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Apr 4, 2018
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Load solutions faster with Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6

Viktor Veis
Viktor Veis

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 time it...

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Mar 6, 2018
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Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6, Visual Studio for Mac version 7.4 Released

John Montgomery
John Montgomery

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.

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Dec 4, 2017
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Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.5, Visual Studio for Mac Released

John Montgomery
John Montgomery

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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Nov 20, 2017
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Large C# and VB solutions load significantly faster in 15.5 update

Viktor Veis
Viktor Veis

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 share...

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Nov 16, 2017
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Test Experience Improvements

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

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 improveme...

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Oct 5, 2016
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Announcing Visual Studio “15” Preview 5

John Montgomery
John Montgomery

Today we released Visual Studio “15” Preview 5. With this Preview, I want to focus mostly on performance improvements, and in the coming days we’ll have some follow-up posts about the performance gains we’ve seen. I’m also going to point out some of the productivity enhancements we’ve made. So kick off the installer here and read the rest of the...

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Apr 25, 2016
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Anatomy of a Low Impact Visual Studio Install

Art Leonard
Art Leonard

In building faster ways of getting VS, we needed to reduce the size of the minimum product, change a bit of the way the IDE itself ran, change the way components are installed on your computer, and reduce the way components can impact your system. In this article, I will share a little about what it took to make this come together.

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Feb 17, 2016
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10 things you should try on the leap day

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

It’s February 2016 and so those of us on the Gregorian calendar get to enjoy an extra day in the month! What will you do in those 24 bonus hours? How about learning some new tools and technologies? Here are ten great suggestions—OK, eleven! It is a leap year, so it’s a leap list: Get your code hosted for free in Visual Studi...

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Feb 15, 2016
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Analyze CPU and Memory while Debugging

Visual Studio Team
Visual Studio Team

Would you like to learn how to make your code run faster, use less memory, or just find out whether your code has a CPU or memory issue? Of course you would—you’re a developer! But then, memory and performance tuning often suffers from the pitfall of being an “important but not urgent” task that you simply can’t seem to get to because of the really...

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