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Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2017, after three months of testing of the release candidate version.
The latest version of the popular integrated development environment (IDE) is more componentised, promising a lighter footprint and faster install which will let users pick and choose which components to install, as well as their workloads and language packs.
As a result, the tool will load two to three times faster, according to Microsoft, although it will still take more than a minute to get going.
« This has been made possible by moving extensions out of the startup path using an on-demand-load approach and optimising and deferring cache initialisations. For example, the first launch startup times have improved from 206 seconds in Visual Studio 2015 to 64.
