

We are also working on upgrading our feedback systems. And C++ has a whole lot of improvements across the board. We have revamped the Start Page experience by adding new Open and Create features to the most frequently used Recent list and the News feed. Expect to see further improvements before we release, including support for automated deployments, offline installation and further refactoring and componentization.Īpart from the new installer, Preview 4 also includes many other improvements. NET Core tooling and Azure tooling, but the rest of the existing VS 2015 feature set is available.įor more background to the new installer, there are two earlier blog posts on the principles that guided our new installation engine and the process of redesigning around workloads.

There are a couple of “workloads” that aren’t present yet, including. The smallest install is less than 500 MB on disk (compared to 6GB in the previous release of Visual Studio). The highlight of this release is that nearly all of VS is running on the new setup engine, resulting in a smaller, faster and less impactful installation. Today we released Visual Studio “15” Preview 4, introducing many new improvements and bug fixes that bring us one stage closer to the product’s completion.
