<\/a><\/p>\n We have made (and are continuing to make) substantial improvements to solution load and startup, branch switching, and unit test discovery times. Starting from Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6<\/a>, solutions load on average 35% faster than in Visual Studio 2015. In fact, .NET and C++ developers opening large solutions in Visual Studio 2017 will notice their solutions load twice as fast as they did in 2015. Say goodbye to startup delays!<\/p>\n We have great news about Visual Studio setup; the setup experience is faster and more lightweight than ever. Our new install experience allows you to pick and choose what you want to install–significantly reducing your install time and size, getting you up and running in Visual Studio 2017 in no time. It also installs side-by-side<\/a> with previous versions of Visual Studio.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n We know you spend as much time understanding code as writing new code, so great navigation tools are paramount to your success as a developer. Here is how you can navigate effectively in Visual Studio 2017<\/a>:<\/p>\n Each release of Visual Studio 2017 brings more and more refactorings and quick fixes<\/a>. Any quick action or refactoring can be triggered using Ctrl+.<\/b> or Alt+Enter<\/b> (for single-hand accessibility). Here are some of the ones you requested that made it in so far in .NET, across versions 15.0 through 15.8:<\/p>\n For C++ there are a couple new quick actions to note:<\/p>\n Because the .NET experience in Visual Studio 2017 is built on the Roslyn language service, any developer can write their own refactoring or code analyzer to automate actions or enforce style. Read our walkthroughs<\/a> to get started or check out existing community analyzers you can download.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve added (and are working to add more) common editor features so you can quickly move around and edit your code:<\/p>\n For C++ development, we have added several other editor improvements:<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n The Visual Studio 2017 debugger allows you to diagnose issues faster by surfacing critical information and functionality without requiring new breakpoints and a restart of your debugging session.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n We buckled down on providing a fast and productive unit testing experience for MSTest (v1.0 and 2.0), NUnit, XUnit, Google Test, and Boost frameworks:<\/p>\n Visual Studio 2017 enables individuals and teams to drive consistency across their codebase with coding convention configuration and enforcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n C# 7.0<\/a> ships with Visual Studio 2017 by default, bringing language features like tuples, pattern-matching, and out var to help you work with data and make your code more readable. You can also upgrade your project to be on the \u201clatest minor\u201d version of C# and take advantage of features in our point-releases<\/a> like: async Main, Span, Enum constraints, and more!<\/p>\n As of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7, MSVC compiler toolset conforms to the C++ Standard<\/a> up to and including C++17, with minor exceptions. The C++ team worked to significantly overhaul the compiler, making it far easier to implement modern C++ features. Additionally, we added the C++ Core Guidelines Check extension (CppCoreCheck). This extension is designed to make it easy to adopt C++ Core Guidelines and adopt utilities from the Guidelines Support Library.<\/p>\n Migration to Visual Studio 2017 for C++ is easier than ever before. Visual Studio C++ 2017 is binary compatible with Visual Studio C++ 2015, so there is no need to rebuild your 2015 component. Furthermore, the decoupling of toolsets means that you can use your toolset from 2013 or later.<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n Upgrading may be extremely easy for your team–if you and your team are on Visual Studio Community or have an EA\/Subscription, you already have access to a Visual Studio 2017 license today. To learn more about how to upgrade, visit our upgrade site<\/a>. To learn more about how you can be productive in Visual Studio 2017, check out the productivity guide<\/a> for .NET developers for a comprehensive overview of our tools and features.<\/p>\n We\u2019re releasing updates to Visual Studio at a faster cadence than ever before so that we can unblock you on any issues you may have and evolve and create features to make you more productive in your everyday workflow.<\/p>\n Use the Send Feedback<\/b> button inside Visual Studio to have direct access to the product team (we look at all of them!) and to easily share memory dumps and traces so that we can more quickly investigate issues with performance you may have. Also, use the button to request productivity features you need to code with ease and confidence. We are here to help you upgrade!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Visual Studio 2017 is our best IDE yet. To help you write great code, it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":586,"featured_media":196260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[472,155],"tags":[237,3,354,1383,9,53,526,287,182,147,12,156],"class_list":["post-18615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gaming","category-visual-studio","tag-net","tag-net-framework","tag-announcement","tag-c","tag-debug","tag-performance","tag-productivity","tag-tips-and-tricks","tag-unity","tag-update","tag-visual-studio","tag-visual-studio-2017"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" Visual Studio 2017 is our best IDE yet. To help you write great code, it\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Reason 1: Faster Than Ever<\/h2>\n
Reason 2: Efficient Code Navigation<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nReason 3: Refactorings and Quick Actions<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nReason 4: Additions to Core Editor Functionality<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nReason 5: Debugging Improvements<\/h2>\n
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Reason 6: New and Refreshed Unit Testing Experience<\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nReason 7: Code Style Configuration and Enforcement<\/h2>\n
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Reason 8: C# 7.3 and MSVC Standards Conformance<\/h2>\n
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