Latest Productivity Updates in Visual Studio 2017 Update 15.8
summary
Visual Studio 2017 Update 15.8 ships concrete speed and tooling gains: solution load is ~25% faster vs 2015, source-based test discovery finds 10,000 tests in under 5 seconds versus ~29s before, and single-test runs inside big suites are up to 82% faster. Editor additions include multi-cursor Ctrl+Alt+Click, merge‑conflict quick fixes via the lightbulb, refactorings like for→foreach, invert if and ternary conversion, one-click code cleanup Ctrl+K,D, SourceLink debugging into NuGet source, step‑back historical debugging and IntelliCode with inferred EditorConfig rules.
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chapters (30)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:29Performance
- 5:14Productivity
- 7:48Smart Hotel 360
- 8:35Test Explorer
- 11:10Merge Conflict
- 13:14Exclude Large Test Projects
- 14:49Null Check
- 15:35Remove Unnecessary parentheses
- 16:31Invert ifelse statement
- 17:13Conditional ifelse statement
- 18:00ternary expression
- 18:44text housekeeping
- 19:45link to for each
- 21:20code fix
- 22:29housekeeping
- 24:25skip unit testing
- 25:19add more negative comments
- 26:53navigate to decompiled assemblies
- 28:03navigate to decompiled sources
- 29:01source link debugging
- 30:02step back debugging
- 32:36IntelliCode
- 33:42Overloads
- 35:59Navigation Shortcuts
- 37:31Code Cleanup
- 38:26Editor Config
- 40:29Editor Config in Solution Explorer
- 42:59Recap
- 48:47Resources
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