Dev Drive for Performance Improvements in Visual Studio and Dev Boxes!

Microsoft has released Dev Drive for Visual Studio to help developers optimize their workflow and increase productivity. Dev Drive creates a separate volume that uses ReFS instead of NTFS and is optimized for developer workflows. It improves performance for disk-bound operations such as cloning, building, copying files, and package restore. Dev Drive also provides Copy-on-Write (CoW) linking, or block cloning, for added optimization. Windows Defender should be set to "Async" for most scenarios for optimal performance gains. Dev Boxes will come pre-configured to use Dev Drives in the future. Visual Studio 17.7 automatically recognizes Dev Drive when creating a new project, making development tasks faster and streamlining the workflow.

Conclusion

Dev Drive is a new tool in Windows that helps developers code faster and more efficiently. Microsoft encourages users to share their feedback through Developer Community feedback tickets or the Windows feedback hub.