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David Kean @keansbox.com · 03/09/2026

Hugs mate. You owe them nothing and can do whatever *you* want with the thing you have spent countless hours on that you give away for *free*.

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Aaron Powell (@slace) @aaron-powell.com · 03/09/2026

Are you a @visualstudio.com user? Did you know you can review PRs from within VS, no need to context switch between the codebase and the browser. Check out how - devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

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Today I will... review GitHub PRs - Visual Studio Blog

Discover tips for managing GitHub PRs efficiently. Streamline your development process using Visual Studio's tools.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 18/06/2026

Launched from an app in temp nonetheless

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 21/02/2026

Yeah but be warned its addictive, its expensive and your family might not appreciate as much as you do. I paid someone to wire it so i dont have cables everywhere.

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Visual Studio @visualstudio.com · 22/12/2025

On today's #VSToolbox replay episode, we get a behind the scenes look at how performance is measured and what improvements were made in #VisualStudio 2026. Drop in, msft.it/63329tmThT

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Gus Perez @gusperez.com · 10/12/2025

Great behind the scenes walkthrough by @keansbox.com on how the VS team keeps grinding on improving performance in Visual Studio. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNT-...

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Performance Improvements in Visual Studio 2026

YouTube video by Microsoft Visual Studio

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 22/10/2025

If you fire off windows feedback i will make sure lands on the right desk.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 22/10/2025

This is my own opinion and not Windows. This feature will never work on a developer machine as "by design" devs build untusted binaries. I've also reverse engineered events as we run into it, too, as greatly increases the cost of things that load lots of binaries.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 22/10/2025

It turns off after 48 hours if it sees untrusted binaries, but you can fast track by switching it off directly via Smart App Control in Settings.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 02/10/2025

My ears are burning...

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Jon Sagara @jonsagara.com · 01/10/2025

Been using it since it was released. Rock solid and performance is great. It’s my new daily driver.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 01/10/2025

If you aren't using the new insiders build, you are missing out:

Scene from Interstellar movie where they are near the black hole planet with caption "This little maneuver's gonna cost us 51 years"

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 01/10/2025

We've been working for a while on a vision of what Visual Studio looks like in the future, and first insiders build of 2026 represents one of our first steps towards that. On top of being gorgeous with its modern Fluent UI, this build one of the fastest releases we've released, with more to come.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 01/10/2025

Visual Studio 2026 represents about a year's worth of work across the Visual Studio team. If you haven't tried it, head over to visualstudio.microsoft.com/insiders/ to download it - it will install alongside Visual Studio 2022 so you can continue to use both if you like.

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Visual Studio 2026 Insiders - Faster, smarter IDE

Try Visual Studio 2026 Insiders with Copilot AI deeply integrated, faster performance across C# and C++, and a refreshed, modern UI.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 01/10/2025

This is my fault. I explain here: www.reddit.com/r/dotnet/com...

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Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here!

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ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 11/09/2025

The startup time on the new Visual Studio 2026 preview is really impressive. Even for a very large 100+ project solution, it opens in just a few seconds.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 29/09/2025

I'm super glad you noticed, we've been working hard on it. :)

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 24/09/2025

Thanks, I suspected this was the case.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 24/09/2025

Can you expand on the "accidentally installed the wrong version"? Visual Studio can update its reference to Documents in options, need to uninstall/reinstall.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 18/09/2025

Probably puts us at a severe disadvantage, but I am interested in where you thinking we are are slower.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 17/09/2025

In what scenarios Jimmy?

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 15/09/2025

This performance boost is not by moving to .NET Core.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 15/09/2025

Glad you like! We're using it daily too as our main IDE.

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DJ @djisfurious.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Gotta say that in other news - I’m really enjoying the new #vs2026 insiders version. Not one crash and now it’s my primary IDE . Seems snappier and cleaner. Great job #VisualStudio team. And shout out to #SSMS team! V21 is breath of fresh air.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 09/09/2025

Will get to it, writing it up is taking away from the doing more. :)

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 09/09/2025

Welcome to Visual Studio 2026 Insiders: devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio... I haven't posted much for a while as I've been heads down working with the Visual Studio team to deliver all the performance and other goodness in this one.

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Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here! - Visual Studio Blog

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders is here – and it marks one of the most ambitious steps forward we’ve taken with the IDE. This release brings AI woven directly into the developer workflow, performance impr...

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 04/08/2025

ie the operator == doesn't take nullable parameters?

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 04/08/2025

My first thought was the comparing value type against null warning Roslyn added over the old compiler, but I don't think you can bang (!) your way out of that. Next thought is maybe R# or something complaining about comparing a non-nullable value against null and the bangs silence it?

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 04/08/2025

As always dude, you solving the real problems with these public tools. You should should come solve real problems my way some day. :)

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 04/08/2025

Yeah have Aeropress for camping, its good.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 03/08/2025

If my brain thinks its important, usually it can't stop thinking about it until I've literally done or sent off an email about it. I've not found anything that works for me, let me know me if you find something,

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 03/08/2025

I would say fertilizers, computers fall into that.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 03/08/2025

This of course is "those in glass houses" sort of thing; and I abolutely agree, and trying to fix ours.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 03/08/2025

. @vscode.dev What happened here, I find it super hard to find the commands I actually want to click on this. 5 ways to split, probably unneeded?

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 03/08/2025

You need to accept it for what it is; just a great time. When I stopped believing Mission Impossible's believability - they became fun.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 03/08/2025

I got the Breville touch and was pretty happy with effort versus coffee taste factor. Previously Jura (meh) and Nespresso (stuck on deserted island, last restort).

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 03/08/2025

Sorry folks, I've been offline for a while. Help -> Send Feedback -> Report a Problem, choose Record option. Send me the link, and I can route. @jaredpar.bsky.social

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 29/05/2025

Thanks John, appreciate your input. I'll get right on that.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 28/05/2025

It is not, if you can share me a dump in some form. I can take a look.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 28/05/2025

> .NET should acknowledge > 20 odd years that followed is not worth a mention You often jump on threads and say the opposite of what folks post?

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 27/05/2025

It has to be done carefully as Microsoft also often get reverse feedback that we're trying to replace said thing, when reality is that they are just finally delivering Anders original vision from earlier 2000s.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 27/05/2025

However, what you folks have shown and agree with is that .NET should acknowledge existing community that there's still plenty of interest and their influence over eventual design.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 27/05/2025

Just distractions (Windows, NET Core cough cough) and shipping schedules got in the way. If you look at early Silverlight announcements (WPF/E at time) for what ended became v2, you’ll see csx on it before Roslyn even was a thing. It disappeared from plans by time it shipped, however.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 27/05/2025

Patrik, don’t want to dismiss the work that ScriptCS and Cake have had on .NET ecosystem, but go back to look at Anders, Dustin, and Mads early demos of Roslyn to the world. I had nothing to do with the above, but when I was on Roslyn team above was always end vision from compiler folks with csx.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 03/05/2025

You are missing unimported namespaces and inheritance margin, both added since that post.

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 19/04/2025

He was embarrassed when he realized as he didn't mean for us to see it. This, however, is David's natural position in a meeting (or at least ones involving me), so you kinda had to get used to it. :)

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David Kean @keansbox.com · 19/04/2025

One time during .NET Core early days, we were having a remote meeting with Fowler and another colleague of his. This was in the days when video meetings were a bit unusual. His colleague completely forgot he was on video and had a reaction like this to something I said.

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