You can download Visual Studio 2022 from the <\/span><\/span>Visual Studio downloads<\/span><\/span><\/a> page\u00a0<\/span><\/span>or upgrade\u00a0your existing installation by following instructions on the <\/span><\/span><\/span>Update Visual Studio<\/span><\/span><\/a> page<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Significant enhancements have been made to Solution-Open performance and Solution Filters, particularly for larger projects. Testing with the Chromium repository, which consists of 11000 projects, showed a remarkable 8x faster cached project load time, saving 3.5 minutes in Solution Load time. The cached Chromium solution now loads in approximately 30 seconds. Additionally, for a Solution Filters scenario with 63 projects, Chromium loads in just 20 seconds, which is 3x faster. These enhancements greatly benefit larger projects, enhancing productivity and reducing loading times.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Enhancements have been made to the Solution-Close process, which notably accelerates closing a solution with C++ projects. These improvements provide a 20% to 50% speed boost in closing solutions, depending on their size, with the most significant performance gains observed in larger projects (1000+ projects). For instance, in Chromium projects, the improvements result in a 50% acceleration, saving around 20 seconds of time.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a0We are pleased to announce that the Git History feature in Visual Studio has been enhanced to provide faster loading times for file and folder scenarios. Git repositories with longer history and more time between commits will see greater speed improvements. We’re excited to share that our measurements indicate a 42% improvement in the <\/span>Git public repository<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We’ve further reduced the time it takes to switch between git branches in Visual Studio by optimizing file system changes detection and processing. Additionally, we’ve enhanced the way Visual Studio handles calls to git for this specific case.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The lightbulb\/code actions have been greatly improved through comprehensive redesign of the diagnostics and code analysis architecture.\u00a0 We have focused on optimizing all components involved in bringing up a lightbulb through a combination of low\/medium\/high level fixes.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Before<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n After<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We have made substantial enhancements to the performance of both the CPU and memory, specifically when dealing with extensive source files. We have successfully minimized the number of progress bar cycles required for the Lightbulb scenario in a large source file. Previously, it took approximately 8 to 17 cycles, but now we have reduced it to less than one cycle, as illustrated in the above gif.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The stop collection feature of the Performance Profiler has undergone performance improvements recently. These enhancements include implementing parallel NGEN PDB creation, parallel C# metadata scraping, and NGEN PDB caching in the symbol cache. As a result, metadata loading time and debug symbol loading time for NGEN PDBs have significantly decreased.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0The stop collection now runs approximately 3.5 times faster when generating and almost 15 times faster when using cached values (which are always used if available). We’ve tested this using a 10-second trace in Visual Studio, and version 17.6 demonstrates a considerably faster performance than previous versions 17.5 and 17.4.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tell us what you think!<\/span><\/b>\u202f<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nSolution Open<\/a><\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nGit Branch Switches<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/h2>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nPerformance Profiler Stop Collection<\/a><\/h2>\n
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