Performance and the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate

I think you'll find the performance of the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Release Candidate to be vastly improved over Beta 2.

Microsoft showed wisdom and courage when it chose to delay the release to make the product better - and faster.

BTW, the RC build expires on June 30, 2010.

 

Published Monday, February 08, 2010 5:17 PM by Ken Cox [MVP]
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# re: Performance and the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate

Tuesday, February 09, 2010 6:14 PM by zoldello

I was surprised that the performance issues was not caught earlier; given the $$$ and geniuses Microsoft has in its QA departments.

# re: Performance and the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 4:14 AM by Shail

I am using beta 2 and not satisfied with the performance of it. I hope in RC it will be much improved. And also there will be much improvement in the final release.

# re: Performance and the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 8:20 AM by fmorris0

@zoldello: perhaps Microsoft's QA people did point it out but since Microsoft is like any other corporation and must continuously "feed the revenue machine" every quarter or suffer the fate of a lower stock price for failing to meet shareholder expectations, VS 2010 performance took a back seat to meeting the revenue generation goal.  It's not only a plausible explanation, it certainly wouldn't be the first time something like it has happened at Microsoft.  Example: SQL Server 7 was half-baked, but came out on time only to have to be 75% replaced (from a binary standpoint) later on by SQL Server 7 Service Pack 1.  The GUI wasn't finished, so DBA's had to do almost anything "new" via the command line.  If that sounds eerily familiar, you're correct: WPF support was XAML-only for a long time because once again, GUI support took a back seat to "just shove it out the door so we can start generating revenue".  Oracle's done it. Sun's done it.  Microsoft isn't the only guilty party.

# re: Performance and the Visual Studio 2010 Release Candidate

Wednesday, February 10, 2010 8:58 AM by Uwe

For me, it is more interesting what the performance is compared to VS 2008.

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