Best Practices for Scaling Enterprise Applications in Visual Studio

I'm working on a large-scale enterprise application using Visual Studio Enterprise. What are the recommended tools, extensions, and workflows to ensure maintainability and performance?

Specifically, I'm interested in:

• Code analysis and static checking
• Performance profiling
• Automated testing pipelines

Any tips or sample configurations would be greatly appreciated.

Take advantage of the Live Unit Testing feature. It gives you immediate feedback on your tests while you code. Pair that with Code Analysis rulesets for enterprise standards.

I recommend using PerfView for low‑overhead profiling and the dotnet‑diagnostics tools for runtime insights.

We've set up a CI pipeline using Azure DevOps with the following steps:

trigger:
  - main

pool:
  vmImage: 'windows-latest'

steps:
- task: UseDotNet@2
  inputs:
    packageType: 'sdk'
    version: '8.x'

- script: dotnet restore
- script: dotnet build --configuration Release
- script: dotnet test --configuration Release --collect:"XPlat Code Coverage"
- script: dotnet sonarscanner begin /k:"project-key"
- script: dotnet sonarscanner end

This ensures static analysis, test coverage, and continuous feedback.