Microsoft announces that Visual Studio 2022 17.5 offers a number of performance improvements that significantly increase the product’s speed and responsiveness in the following areas:
- Build acceleration for .NET SDK-like projects
- Decompilation from external sources
- thread window
- Razor and C# experience
- Add item quickly
- code coverage
You can download Visual Studio 2022 from the Visual Studio download page or update your existing installation by following the Visual Studio update page.
Build acceleration for .NET SDK-like projects
Build Acceleration for .NET SDK-like projects is an optional feature that allows Visual Studio to only build projects that have changed and ignore unmodified projects. Enabling build acceleration can reduce incremental build times for SDK-like .NET projects by up to 80%.
Decompilation from external sources
You’ll also find that decompiling large modules is up to 10x faster in 17.5! Decompiling .NET libraries on a call stack shows that it is now possible to decompile multiple modules in less time than it took to decompile a single module in version 17.4. These improvements should make debugging and troubleshooting more efficient.
wire window
Threads window performance has been greatly improved in version 17.5! Window response time now scales very well when debugging applications with a large number of threads. This animation shows the speed of 17.5 compared to 17.4 when debugging an application with about 200 threads.
Add item quickly
Version 17.5 offers a faster way to add files and folders to your solution! The menu command “New Item” (or the shortcut Ctrl+Shift+A) opens a compact dialog box in which you specify the name and extension of the file you want to add, and a file with the corresponding model is added to the project. Compared with the dialog that shows all models, the compact dialog is much faster and lets you get the job done with fewer gestures. The new dialog also allows creating multiple files and folders in a single dialog invocation, further increasing developer productivity!
Razor and C# experience
To address feedback on Razor productivity and performance, we’ve added support for code actions in Razor files, including useful shortcuts like Remove Tag, Base64 Encode Image, and Insert Image Height/Width.
code coverage
We’ve significantly improved the performance of dynamic code coverage by fixing an issue related to inlining. Our survey showed that dynamic instrumentation disables inlining globally. For example, when running coverage tests for the Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.VisualBasic.Semantic.UnitTests project in Roslyn, over a million blocks of code are executed while instrumenting only about 400,000 blocks of code coverage testing. To optimize this, we now enable inlining when neither the caller nor the invocation of code are covered. This change has dramatically increased the speed of dynamic code coverage. Code coverage testing in the Microsoft.CodeAnalysis.VisualBasic.Semantic.UnitTests project in Roslyn runs over 35% faster in version 17.5!
Source: microsoft
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