Quick Start With Visual Studio 2017

• Install more quickly.
• Less system impact.
• Easy to uninstall.
• Customize the installation with your required features.
• Offline Installation and new Command-Line Installation Support.

What was my experience?

Yes …it is overall nice and I like that workload feature.

It is very useful and time saving.

In the workload, I selected most of the items, so it takes more than 20 GB disk space and maybe due to the fact that my internet connection is slow, the installation takes around one hour.



Visual Studio IDE Changes

• GitHub extension for Visual Studio can be selected in the new Visual Studio installer.
• Reduce start up time and solution load time up to 50%.
• File globbing capabilities for .NET Core and ASP.NET Core projects have been enhanced.
• You are now automatically taken to the folder view of your repository after cloning.
• License expiration messages.
• The Account Settings dialog is more readable.
• The version control status bar changes.
• Create a new project directly from the Start page with the searchable templates and a list of recently used templates.
• Sign in and Identity improved in this version.
• Debugger Accessibility Improvements.
• IntelliTrace Events for .NET Core.
• Diagnostic Tools Window Updates.
• Performance Profiler Updates.
• CPU Usage Tool Updates.
• Chrome Debugging Support.
• Find All References (Shift+F12) have modifications.
• New refactoring to allow you to organize source code with one action.

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Quick search option-use Ctrl+T to easily find files, types, methods and other items in your code.



For the Go to line, use Ctrl+G. Now, it shows the total line number in that file.



Structure Guidelines are now drawn in the editor.



Extensions have new options to scheduled

You can schedule more than one extension for installation, update and uninstallation before needing to restart Visual Studio.

Roaming Extension Manager

The Roaming Extension Manager helps you to keep track of all your favorite extensions across all your development environments.

Open Folder

Open Folder is a convenient way for you to work with code bases without projects and solutions.

Project Overview Pages



Connecting to Services Using Service Capabilities

We have to add our storage account from Cloud.



Live Unit Testing

Live Unit Testing is a new feature and is only present in the Enterprise edition of Visual Studio.

Run to Click

Simply, click the icon next to a line of code while debugging to run to that line



Language Extensions and Analysers (For C#)

• Task-like return types for async methods.
• Value tuples.
• Nested local functions.
• Pattern matching extensions.
• Ref returns.

The other major updated area mentioned by Microsoft are mentioned below.

• Live Architecture Dependency Validation
• Developer Command Prompt
• Visual C++
• F#
• Python
• R
• JavaScript and TypeScript
• Tools for XAML Apps
• Tools for Universal Windows App Development
• Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova
• Xamarin (Preview)
• NuGet
• Developer Analytics Tools
• Team Explorer
• SQL Server Data Tools
• Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio
• Visual Studio Software Development Kit
• Azure SDK for .NET
• Node.js Tools for Visual Studio
• Visual Studio Tools for Unity
• .NET Core and Docker(Preview)

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Conclusion

In this article, we learned how to install Visual Studio 2017 RC and looked at some new features of the new release.