For many years, there has been a lot of criticism of Visual Studio’s current solution format. It is very difficult to read, it does not follow any standard and you need your own parser. Changes are virtually only possible with Visual Studio - and there are constant merge problems.
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As has been the case for many releases, the .NET 8 team is spending a lot of development effort to improve the .NET Runtime in terms of performance. Because fast performance means one thing above all: low energy consumption and high scalability.
Read Blog PostA little more than three months ago, Microsoft integrated a new functionality into Visual Studio 2022: Build Acceleration .
This mechanism, which can be optionally activated, apparently ensures that build times for .NET projects can be reduced by up to 80%. This is, of course, an announcement that I wanted to take a closer look at.
Read Blog PostWith Visual Studio 17.5 Preview 3.0 , Microsoft has introduced a new Spellchecker. The problem: apparently this is a remotely activatable feature, which is why it was already activated with Visual Studio 17.5 Preview 2.0 from one moment to the next and caused thousands of developers to suddenly receive hundreds of warnings - including me.
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