Looks like "four" was rather an overestimate
Visual Studio 2017 15.9 is here! Fire up your Windows on Arm laptops. All four of you
Microsoft devs rejoice! A new version of Visual Studio 2017 has arrived replete with fixes, tweaks and ARM64 support. The gang at Redmond have continued tinkering with Visual Studio 2017 despite the 2019 version looming large, and 15.9 is a worthy update, bringing handy new functionality out of preview and into the mainstream …
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Saturday 17th November 2018 08:48 GMT xyz
Xamarin.Android build performance improvement
Thank god for that... 6GB memory use and compiling like it's 1999. However, I'm still at the therapist recovering from trying to get VS2017's many and varied Xamarin related avenues to work together without installing "the kitchen sink" so I might hold off updating for a bit, if I actually get a choice to hold off updating for a bit that is. I don't know why MS gives you Xamarin install options when the only install option that seems to work is the "the fucking lot". Anyhoo, must face my fear and click that update link at some point I suppose.
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Saturday 17th November 2018 21:33 GMT AndrueC
Re: Xamarin.Android build performance improvement
Yeah I've been working with them a bit on improving the mobile development experience. It sounds like they might be getting closer to resolving the 'I just can't be bothered to launch the debugger this time around' that causes so much annoyance. Also it's doing fewer rebuilds which is reducing cycle times.
Still annoying but slightly less painful.
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Tuesday 20th November 2018 10:31 GMT Zmodem
Re: GAH!!
so can firewalls, more so the built in rubbish that is the windows firewall, that does'nt really do anything and but all background services use all your bandwidth
turn off your router and install all the system app's with the firewall disabled, things are always alot faster, especially windows update installs
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Monday 19th November 2018 23:26 GMT Richard 12
Re: Not anytime soon
I found the 2015 to 2017 transition refreshingly simple. As in, it actually worked and I got a sln and project files which actually built a working application with only a day of cursing.
Unlike every previous VS version change, which required a week of sacrifices, and Glod help you if the moon was in the seventh house. Or did Jupiter need to align with Mars? I forget.
I presume this is because they finally switched to MSBuild, just in time for everyone else to switch to cmake or qmake.
Strange that my other IDEs seem able to seamlessly update complex projects.
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