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In my last video, I clocked Visual Studio 2026 taking a whopping 22 seconds to load a basic console app. This caught the attention of David Kean, the head of Visual Studio Performance at Microsoft, who wasn't too pleased and insisted the issue was a failed NGen process on my Windows on ARM machine.
So, in this video, I'm doing exactly what he asked. First, I install the very latest VS update, which promises performance improvements and is supposed to correctly run the Native Image Generation (NGen) optimization. Then, I follow his specific instructions to run a command (ngen eqi 1) in an elevated prompt to force the optimization.
After all that, did it work? Is Visual Studio 2026 finally fast? I put it to the test with a stopwatch to see if Microsoft's prescribed fix makes any difference. The results are... well, you'll have to see for yourself. I even tried to submit a formal problem report with a trace, but that didn't go as planned either. Is it just my machine, or is the new Visual Studio really this slow? Let me know your experience in the comments below!
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