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Visual Studio 2022 – 17.10 Performance Enhancements

June 11, 2024 Jun 11, 2024 06/11/24

Ashok Kamath

We are excited to announce the latest update of Visual Studio 2022, which brings you a range of performance enhancements across various areas of the IDE. In this blog post, we will highlight some of the most notable improvements that you can experience in version 17.10, such as faster Windows Forms designer loading, faster Razor colorization, ...

Visual Studio productivity features in 2023

January 22, 2024 Jan 22, 2024 01/22/24

Leah Tran

Over the last year, we’ve invested heavily in new capabilities to help Visual Studio developers code more easily. Let’s look back on some of the additions that aim to make your coding experience more productive. Productivity highlights Here’s a snapshot of some productivity enhancements that shipped in 2023, ranging from versions ...

Visual Studio Toolbox: Accelerate your builds of SDK-style .NET projects

June 22, 2023 Jun 22, 2023 06/22/23

Leslie Richardson

The Visual Studio Toolbox show helps you become a more productive developer by focusing on tooling in and out of Visual Studio.  Our latest episode of VS Toolbox (available both on Learn and YouTube) features Drew Noakes from the . NET team. He demonstrates how you can dramatically reduce build times for SDK-style .NET projects. What is ...

Visual Studio 2022 17.7 Preview 2 is here!

June 13, 2023 Jun 13, 2023 06/13/23

Taysser Gherfal

Welcome to the Public Preview 2 of Visual Studio version 17.7! Hot on the heels of our recent Preview 1, we're thrilled to roll out another collection of upgrades tailored to empower developers like you. Preview 2 pushes the boundaries further, providing speed, productivity, and collaboration improvements for developers across different ...

Dev Drive for Performance Improvements in Visual Studio and Dev Boxes!

May 24, 2023 May 24, 2023 05/24/23

Grace Taylor

Performance has always been one of our key investment areas for developer tooling in Microsoft. We understand that it’s important for developers to have a fast workflow. That’s why we’re excited to share with you the support of Dev Drives in Visual Studio! Dev Drive for Visual Studio has just been released to help you optimize your ...

Visual Studio 2022 – 17.6 Performance Enhancements

May 23, 2023 May 23, 2023 05/23/23

Nayana Srikanth

Visual Studio 2022 17.6 introduces exciting performance enhancements in several key areas. These improvements aim to enhance the overall software development experience by boosting productivity, reducing wait times, and providing a smoother workflow. The performance enhancements in Visual Studio 2022 17.6 include...

Visual Studio 2022 – 17.5 Released

February 21, 2023 Feb 21, 2023 02/21/23

Anthony Cangialosi

We’re excited to announce that Visual Studio 17.5 is now generally available. This release is full of updates that take friction out of your daily workflows making it easier for you stay in the zone while you code. Features like all-in-one search and intent-based suggestions help you move faster, while improved build and debug speeds ensure ...

VS2022 Performance Enhancements: Git Branch Switching

July 11, 2022 Jul 11, 2022 07/11/22

Taysser Gherfal

Have you experienced delays when switching between your Git branches in Visual Studio? Did you have to wait for your solution and projects to reload after switching between branches in a Git repository? We are happy to announce performance enhancements to the branch switching experience in Visual Studio 2022. To benefit from the latest ...

New Profiler feature in Visual Studio

June 9, 2022 Jun 9, 2022 06/9/22

Misty Hays

Introducing the new File I/O tool  We just launched a new profiling tool in Visual Studio 17.2 that helps you understand how you can optimize your File I/O operations to improve performance in your apps. If you’re trying to investigate and diagnose slow loading times, the new File IO tool can help you understand how the I/O operations ...

Live Unit Testing Preview: Better and Faster

March 16, 2022 Mar 16, 2022 03/16/22

Vritant Bhardwaj

Live Unit Testing is the automatic test running feature in Visual Studio Enterprise. As you make code changes, Live Unit Testing detects what tests are impacted and runs them in the background. This way you always know if the tests covering a certain line of code are passing or failing. You can see what your code coverage is for each line of ...