Windows Developers' Issues

Welcome to the Windows Developer (WinDev) Issues repo!

The purpose of this repo is to collect and catalog issues that affect / impact the inner loop of developers who work on Windows. The developer inner loop would include areas such as compile, run, build, test, debug, and commit. It doesn't matter if you're developing applications FOR Windows or applications that you plan to deploy on Linux, Android, IoT devices, servers, containers, or cloud - if you're building code ON Windows, we'd love to hear from you.

This repo is being driven and managed by a x-team, x-division group of PMs and engineers who're all passionate about improving developers' experience on Windows. We are already coordinating several streams of ongoing work with teams across the company and throughout the community, aiming to drive many issues to ground.

Scope of this repo

Please take note of the current scope of this repo:

We are currently only accepting specific types of issues - those affecting / impacting the inner developer loop: *compile *run *build *test *debug *commit

File an issue

✔ In Scope

At present we are accepting developer-oriented performance issues. Such issues include, for example:

• Dev tools (e.g. compilers, linkers, etc.) running slower on Windows than expected
• Runtime platforms (e.g. node, .NET, Python) running slower on Windows than other platforms
• Your apps experiencing file IO/networking/process-creation related perf issues
• Etc.

❌ Out of scope

If you have feedback/issues related to the following technologies, please file issues in their repos where the teams that own those technologies will be best able to help:

Tech	Repo
Windows Terminal / Console / command-line	https://github.com/microsoft/terminal
Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)	https://github.com/microsoft/wsl
PowerShell	https://github.com/powershell/powershell
PSReadLine - PowerShell's interactive command extensions	https://github.com/PowerShell/PSReadLine
OpenSSH for Windows	https://github.com/powershell/Win32-OpenSSH
.NET Core runtime & libraries	https://github.com/dotnet/runtime
ASP.NET Core	https://github.com/dotnet/aspnetcore
Roslyn (C# & Visual BASIC Compiler Platform)	https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn
Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)	https://github.com/dotnet/wpf
WinForms	https://github.com/dotnet/winforms
WinUI	https://github.com/Microsoft/microsoft-ui-xaml
Winget package manager app	https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli
Winget package repo	https://github.com/microsoft/winget-pkgs
PowerToys	https://github.com/microsoft/powertoys
Project Reunion	https://github.com/microsoft/ProjectReunion

Submit all other issues via Feedback Hub

If you have other out-of-scope feedback that you'd like to report/share, please submit via Windows' 10's Feedback Hub which will route your feedback to the team that owns the technology you're experiencing issues with.

👉 Feedback Hub offers several very useful features that help us track-down complex issues, including the ability to record scenario-specific repro steps and traces. We may on occasion ask you to file an issue via Feedback Hub in order to collect these traces.

Contributing

We're not accepting PR's right now (currently, this is an issues-only repo), but if/when we do ...

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When you submit a pull request, a CLA bot will automatically determine whether you need to provide a CLA and decorate the PR appropriately (e.g., status check, comment). Simply follow the instructions provided by the bot. You will only need to do this once across all repos using our CLA.

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the Microsoft Open Source Code of Conduct. For more information see the Code of Conduct FAQ or contact opencode@microsoft.com with any additional questions or comments.