Review: Visual Studio 2017 is the best ever

I mentioned earlier that Visual Studio startup time has improved over the years. For large solutions with many projects, such as a 2-million-line-of-code C++/C# project with a dozen DLLs and other separate modules on which I used to work, the new lightweight solution load mechanism can help a lot, because the individual projects are loaded on demand instead of all at once. That can make the difference between an annoying five-minute wait at startup time and a barely noticeable five-second pause as you open a different project within the solution. Individual file loads have sped up as well and now usually open in less than a second—almost at Sublime Text speeds.

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