Optimize Visual Studio performance for Service Fabric Mesh projects

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Important

The preview of Azure Service Fabric Mesh has been retired. New deployments will no longer be permitted through the Service Fabric Mesh API. Support for existing deployments will continue through April 28, 2021.

For details, see Azure Service Fabric Mesh Preview Retirement.

This article shows you how to optimize Visual Studio performance for Service Fabric Mesh projects so that your first debugging run (F5) is much faster.

Change Visual Studio settings

In Visual Studio, under Tools > Options > Service Fabric Mesh Tools > General, you can adjust the following settings:

  • Pull required Docker images on project open makes your first debugging run (F5) faster by starting the image download process while the project is loading.
  • Deploy application on project open can make your first debugging run (F5) faster by starting the deploy process once the project is opened.
  • Remove application on project close reclaims resources (CPU, RAM) allocated to the app by removing the Mesh app when the project is closed.

When you see messages in the Service Fabric Tools output window that Visual Studio is 'pulling images', 'warming up', or 'removing application', it is in reference to the settings above. You can turn off these settings.

Next steps

Read through the Debug a Mesh app tutorial