This option will improve performance and reliability in large solutions. We’ve added an “Only analyze projects which contain files opened in the editor” checkbox under the JavaScript/TypeScript Text Editor Project Options page. There are multiple performance improvements in F# tooling. In the most exceptional cases, you can see up to a 40x improvement in unfold time.

Project templates should now unfold much faster than before. It is faster to add, remove, and rename files and folders in. The time to switch between debug and release is significantly reduced. Solution load times for large C# and Visual Basic projects is nearly cut by half. In this update we continued to improve performance. Some highlights are mentioned below, for the full feature list check out the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 Release notes. This update contains major performance improvements, new features, as well as fixes for bugs reported by you. If you’d like to jump right in, download Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5 and download Visual Studio for Mac. I’ll share some details in this post, but as always, there’s a lot more information in the release notes. Today we released significant updates to both Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio for Mac.