

Some quality-of-life improvements also include a new update setting, which lets you update Visual Studio automatically when you close it, making it so that updates are installed right away when you're not using it. There are a lot more improvements across the board, some related to Azure, Blazor, and more.

Additionally, Microsoft improved the performance of the debugger, specifically the response times of the threads window, which Microsoft says should be twice as fast now. NET apps by making it so that only projects that received updates are built, while unchanged projects are skipped. On the topic of performance improvements, Microsoft also says you can expect much faster build times for.

This follows the official debut of native Arm64 support with version 17.4. Another notable improved is a native Clang Arm64 toolset for LLVM, which enables native compilation on Arm64 devices, resulting in faster performance.
