Comments on: Dev Drive for Performance Improvements in Visual Studio and Dev Boxes! https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/devdrive/ The official source of product insight from the Visual Studio Engineering Team Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:54:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Luis Gustavo Pereira https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/devdrive/#comment-29110 Wed, 19 Jul 2023 16:54:15 +0000 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/?p=243067#comment-29110 How to set [Live Unit Testing](https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/test/live-unit-testing-intro?view=vs-2022) workspace root to a dev drive? It fails with
Failed to start file system virtualization provider (-2147024418). Check to make sure that the ‘Windows Projected File System’ optional Windows feature is turned on and close any open files or folders under ”. If you contiinue to run into this error, try closing Visual Studio and delete the ” folder, then restart Live Unit Testing. If that does not work, try restarting Windows.

]]> By: Rodrigo Fleischfresser https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/devdrive/#comment-29028 Fri, 23 Jun 2023 20:07:31 +0000 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/?p=243067#comment-29028 Why is not recommended to install VS on this drive? Is there any app that would work better if installed on this drive?

]]> By: Grace Taylor https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/devdrive/#comment-29022 Thu, 22 Jun 2023 20:05:08 +0000 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/?p=243067#comment-29022 In reply to Nex Zhu.

That’s a great question! They are separate filesystems, so there will not be significant benefits. With WSL, perf will be best when staying within the Linux filesystem.

]]> By: Nex Zhu https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/devdrive/#comment-29017 Thu, 22 Jun 2023 07:02:42 +0000 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/?p=243067#comment-29017 In reply to Márcio Soster.

+1 Does this work for repos cloned in WSL?

]]> By: Márcio Soster https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/devdrive/#comment-29000 Fri, 16 Jun 2023 22:15:56 +0000 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/?p=243067#comment-29000 Any improvements and how to for wsl users?

]]> By: Grace Taylor https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/devdrive/#comment-28865 Fri, 26 May 2023 13:57:06 +0000 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/?p=243067#comment-28865 In reply to Jussi Palo.

Hi there, this documentation discusses behavior with Microsoft Defender. You are correct that moving source code to Dev Drive would give perf gains on an older Visual Studio as well, depending on the language you are using.

]]> By: Jussi Palo https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/devdrive/#comment-28861 Fri, 26 May 2023 08:35:03 +0000 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/?p=243067#comment-28861 1. “We also recommend turning Windows Defender to “Async” for most scenarios for optimal perf gains.”
Any source where to find info what this means and how to change this setting?

2. How to utilize DevDrive with older Visual Studio 17.6? Are there any other steps than just move source code to DevDrive and use them from there?

]]> By: Stevie White https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/devdrive/#comment-28858 Fri, 26 May 2023 03:02:12 +0000 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/?p=243067#comment-28858 In reply to Olivia Chapman.

Thank you for the answers, Olivia!

]]> By: Olivia Chapman https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/devdrive/#comment-28856 Thu, 25 May 2023 20:10:11 +0000 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/?p=243067#comment-28856 In reply to Stevie White.

Hi Stevie,

Thanks for your questions! Dev Drive works with any SSDs, so yes it will work for NVMe. To use OneDrive, you just need to ensure you have CloudFlt enabled on your Dev Drive. For more info on filters, please see aka.ms/devdrive.

Hope this helps!
Olivia

]]> By: Georgi Hadzhigeorgiev https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/devdrive/#comment-28853 Thu, 25 May 2023 12:33:47 +0000 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio/?p=243067#comment-28853 Awesome!
Can’t wait for the official release.

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