Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate • Hacker News Board

Re: Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate

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Post by johnhattan » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 4:04 PM UTC

Beltiras wrote: post #8

johnhattan wrote: post #6

Looks like the download page is getting hammered. FWIW, the download buttons on the big white panels didn't work for me. If you scroll further down the page to the list of all downloads, that worked.

Piss-poor caching mechanism that can't spit out static frontpages with relative ease. Still getting 504's.

Here are direct links. Looks like they haven't updated the names in the URL's, but this downloads the 2017 RC.

https://aka.ms/vs/15/release/vs_Community.exe https://aka.ms/vs/15/release/vs_Enterprise.exe https://aka.ms/vs/15/release/vs_Professional.exe https://aka.ms/vs/15/release/vs_TestProfessional.exe

Re: Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate

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Post by UK-AL » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 4:06 PM UTC

AlphaWeaver wrote: post #2

Looks like MS is making mostly small changes, focusing on improving the features they already have instead of introducing lots of new changes.

Generally a good approach to take with something like VS.

Re: Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate

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Post by FLGMwt » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 4:07 PM UTC

As a .NET dev, I'm happy to see this:

"a new way of view, edit, and debug any code without projects and solutions"

Seems silly, but this solves a long time gripe w/ VS.

Re: Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate

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Post by LyalinDotCom » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 4:08 PM UTC

Maarten88 wrote: post #9

One of the install options is "Linux development with C++"

Yes our C++ team has been investing into this area for a while now, we're building some really powerful debugging capabilities there as just one thing to mention with remote debug right out to your Linux machine or VM

Re: Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate

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Post by satysin » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 4:10 PM UTC

The new installer is nice. Installed just a C++ environment in 5 minutes!!

Re: Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate

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Post by LyalinDotCom » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 4:11 PM UTC

Maarten88 wrote: post #7

AshleyGrant wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I believe the install experience is getting a lot better as well.

At the Build conference they had a demo where they "forgot" to install VS before the presentation, and then installed it from an USB stick in about one minute. I'm installing now, but not from USB...

Visual Studio 2017 installer experience is one of our biggest investments, we know this has been a pain for folks and we're committed to doing everything we can here.

Check out our detailed blog post on the topic:

Visual Studio “15”: Installing Just What You Need https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudio/2016/04/05/vis...

Re: Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate

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Post by omerraviv » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 4:14 PM UTC

Some first impressions here: https://blog.oz-code.com/first-impressions-of-visual-studio-...

Re: Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate

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Post by sremani » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 4:16 PM UTC

Maarten88 wrote: post #9

One of the install options is "Linux development with C++"

That is the natural extension of Linux Subsystem on Windows.

Re: Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate

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Post by jjordan » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 4:17 PM UTC

satysin wrote: post #15

The new installer is nice. Installed just a C++ environment in 5 minutes!!

Wow that's huge. My last VS2015 install took hours.

Re: Visual Studio 2017 Release Candidate

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Post by james-skemp » Wed, Nov 16, 2016, 4:17 PM UTC

I've always been hesitant to install RC's on my machine.

Does anyone know how nicely the RC's generally play with other instances of VS / if they've improved that along with the improved install/uninstall process in 2017?