1. Tooling Breakout Session
Stacey Doerr | Feb 8, 2016

2. Microsoft Build 2016
5/28/2018 3:25 PM
Best in class tools
Windows is home for developer productivity regardless of the language you use or where your code will ultimately run.
Client Developers
VS loads and builds your code faster
Side by side SDKs
ICU/CLDR ships with Windows
XAML Edit and Continue
Xamarin
Gaming Developers
PIX released for Windows Desktop
Store apps can call AMD and nVidia extensions
Game Mode
Command Line Developers
Debug Linux services with the Windows Subsystem for Linux
Bash interop with Windows
Powershell, Cmd, Bash - improved font, color, language support
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3. Desktop and UWP Developers

4. Visual Studio 2017 Faster Startup​
First launch up to 3x faster than Visual Studio 2015​
Normal startup improved with deferred/asynchronous extension loading
Faster build cycle with /Debug:fastlink​
Expect 2x-4x linker performance​
Faster debugger symbol loading​​

5. More Productive Open any folder and get going quickly
Build, debug, and place breakpoints, including Node.js and Python​
All without any projects or Solutions.​
Side by side SDKs
Starting with Creator’s Update and VS 2017​
Better refactoring support
XAML Edit and Continue

6. SQLite Ships With Windows 10
UWP apps can use the OS version of SQLite for local data storage​
Windows 10 Anniversary Update (Build 14393) and later include SQLite in the OS​
“Using Sqlite in UWP Apps” -

7. Industry standard, open-source globalization
ICU/CLDR are open source standards for globalization
ICU/CLDR now ships with Windows​
Windows globalization API capacity and usable locale data ​greatly increased
ICU APIs part of Universal Windows Platform​
ICU now available on all Windows platforms.​
Reduce disk footprint and app size by having a single OS version​

8. 5/28/2018 3:25 PM
Windows Device Portal
Deploy your app to different devices and debug it
Xbox, Hololens, IoT, mobile
New Xbox capabilities in Windows 10 Creator’s Update for Xbox
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10. Gaming Developers 5/28/2018 3:25 PM
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11. GPU Extensions
DirectX 12 provides low-overhead access to GPU while abstracting away vendor-specific differences
Some high-end UWP games want to use proprietary GPU-specific features
DX11 Multi-GPU support
High Dynamic Range
With the Creator’s Update, any app can call extensions provided by AMD and nVidia
No Store restrictions, no questions asked
Applies retroactively to apps targeting Anniversary Update as well

12. Game Mode Game Mode adds predictability
5/28/2018 3:25 PM
Game Mode
Game Mode adds predictability
More predictable CPU and GPU resources
Users can designate any app as a Game and switch it on or off (Win + G)
Developers can request to always be in Game Mode
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13. PIX for Windows Desktop
5/28/2018 3:25 PM
PIX for Windows Desktop
GPU debugger that supports DX12
All the power you’re used to from Xbox, now on the desktop
Available publicly since January
We thought only a few people would be interested, but…
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14. PIX Demo Peter Torr Principal Program Manager Lead
5/28/2018 3:25 PM
PIX Demo
Peter Torr
Principal Program Manager Lead
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15. Command Line Developers
5/28/2018 3:25 PM
Command Line Developers
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16. Bash & WSL Demo Rich Turner Senior Program Manager @richturn_ms
5/28/2018 3:25 PM
Bash & WSL Demo
Rich Turner
Senior Program Manager
@richturn_ms
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17. Bash & WSL Console improvements: Color, rendering, mouse support
Windows Subsystem for Linux
Supports most mainstream dev tools
Runs many dev’ services
Windows <-> Bash “Interop”
Visual C++ For Linux & WSL
Build & debug C++ Linux binaries
Learn more:

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