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This is still in early preview. They acknowledged the startup speed in several presentations I saw and said that they are working on speeding it up.

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It may be that they are speeding it up by keeping the .net runtime resident in memory. They used to do this with Visual Basic runtime

I ran norton utilities on my pc yesterday and noticed a new service - it was .net runtime. Please note that I am a developer so this may be just to help launch the tools.

That’s probably just a non-Visual Studio version of what VS already does with reusing .NET-hosting processes when you run an app in debug mode.

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