This document provides 7 reasons to move C++ code to Visual Studio 2017. It highlights improvements in performance, diagnostics, and features for editing, debugging, testing, and committing code. Specific enhancements mentioned include faster IntelliSense, new compiler warnings, improved error experience, and support for additional unit test frameworks and languages. Benchmark results show Visual Studio 2017 providing better performance than 2015 for SPEC CPU2017 tests.