Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 17.4, previously released with .NET 7 integration and native support for not only Windows x64 and Mac architectures but also Arm64, has many other features such as rollback and multi-repository integration. Now, Microsoft details all the major performance improvements in the latest version of its popular Integrated Development Environment (IDE).
Find and replace in Visual Studio 2022 17.4 files is now 3-4 times faster compared to version 17.3. Microsoft says this was achieved through incremental improvements such as asynchronous saving and maximizing caching and indexing. Microsoft test data shows that Visual Studio 2022 17.3 has a 25-second replacement operation, compared to 8 seconds in 17.4.
In addition, C++ project indexing is now faster. Users will notice a 25-30% performance improvement when populating source code indexes in large C++ projects.
Similarly, the need to reload solutions during branch switching has been reduced by 80%. Compared to Visual Studio 2019, branch switching takes 16 seconds for version 17.3 and about 10 seconds for Visual Studio 2022 version 17.4.
NET configuration switch responsiveness performance improvements are also shown in the following table.
In terms of unit testing, Test Explorer can surface the entire project test much faster. In Microsoft testing, performance was improved by a factor of 1 over the previous version when tested on 150 projects and 300,000 test solutions. Likewise, test components run 3x faster and test runner process connections are established faster.
Finally, most save operations have been moved to a background thread so that the IDE remains responsive and unaffected by the save process. Microsoft says this improvement will be most noticeable on slow drives, large projects, and network shares.
