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This is the final post in a five-part series covering performance improvements for Visual Studio “15”. This series covers the following topics: Part 1: Faster Visual Studio “15” Startup Part 2: Shorter Solution Load Time in VS “15” Part 3: Reduced out-of-memory crashes in VS “15” Part 4: VS “15” gets faster for C++ Part 5: Improving… Read more
With Visual Studio ‘15’ our goal is to considerably improve productivity for C++ developers. With this goal in mind we are introducing many new improvements, which you can try out in the recently released Preview 5 build. The highlights of this release include the following: Faster C++ solution load ‘Fast project load’ is a new… Read more
This is the third post in a five-part series covering performance improvements in Visual Studio “15” Preview 5. The previous 2 posts talked about faster startup, and shorter solution load times in Visual Studio 15″. Visual Studio is chock-full of features that millions of developers rely on to be productive at their work. Supporting these features,… Read more
This is the 2nd post in a five-part series covering performance improvements for Visual Studio “15”. Yesterday Selma shared some of the ways we have made Visual Studio “15” startup quicker than ever. Today, I will talk about a new feature in Visual Studio “15” called lightweight Solution load. This feature significantly reduces Solution load… Read more
As John mentioned last Wednesday in the preview 5 announcement post, we are investing heavily performance improvements in this release. This is part one of a five-part series covering performance improvements for Visual Studio “15”. Today, I’ll walk you through a set of investments we made to improve the Visual Studio startup experience in this… Read more
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 more
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… Read more
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… Read more
Today we released Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 CTP. Our focus for this release has been stability and performance, along with responding to feedback you’ve given us on Visual Studio 2015 RTM and Update 1. Here are the biggest things you’ll find in this update: Fixes for quite a number of bugs: Crashes when editing… Read more
A few weeks ago at the Build conference, we released a release candidate of the second update to Visual Studio 2013. This update of Visual Studio contained significant new functionality including being able to create Universal Apps for both Windows and Windows Phone. To be able to target Windows Phone, developers need to use emulators… Read more