Hacker News with Generative AI: Visual Studio

We ended up rewriting NuGet Restore in .NET 9 (microsoft.com)
This is the story of how team members across NuGet, Visual Studio, and .NET embarked on a journey to fully rewrite the NuGet Restore algorithm to achieve break-through scale and performance.

.NET, Software Development, Performance, NuGet, Visual Studio

39 points by runesoerensen 16 days ago | 0 comments

Visual Studio: New, Simpler Solution File Format (microsoft.com)
For years, you’ve worked with Visual Studio’s solution file (*.SLN) format, and while it’s a core part of your project organization, we know the experience hasn’t always been smooth.

Visual Studio, Software Development, Software Updates, .NET

11 points by ingve 43 days ago | 2 comments

MSVC Address Sanitizer updates in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.13 (microsoft.com)
We have been investing in the quality of MSVC Address Sanitizer (ASan) in several key areas over the past year, including working with LLVM upstream to stay coordinated with their changes, adding coverage for internal tools and libraries, and hardening APIs and runtime modes.

Software, Development Tools, C++, Visual Studio, Security

25 points by pjmlp 63 days ago | 0 comments

Show HN: Windows' ext4 filesystem accesibility by new Visual Studio 2022 (github.com/abdulbadii)
ext4fsd is ext2, ext3 and ext4 file system accessibility on Windows

Windows, File Systems, Visual Studio, Software, Open Source

5 points by dogol 112 days ago | 0 comments

Dev Drive (ReFS) for Performance Improvements in Visual Studio and Dev Boxes (microsoft.com)
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!