Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.2 (26430.13)

Tech giant Microsoft has announced the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.2 (26430.13). This release focuses on increasing the productivity and making it easier to create applications for mobile and cloud. A lightweight and modular installation is also a highlight feature.

Visual Studio 2017 — Productivity and performance, mobile, cloud, and devops

In this release, Microsoft has focused on four areas — productivity and performance, mobile, cloud, and devops. In its release notes, Microsoft said that 2017 release brings a lightweight and modular installation experience. It allows the developers to only get the components they need.

Microsoft also claims that Visual Studio 2017 starts up to 3 times faster as compared to Visual Studio 2015. This release is designed to support teams in a better manner, it comes with tools to provide for developing NET Core 1.0 and 1.1 apps, microservices, and Docker containers.

Xamarin integration in Visual Studio 2017 has been made better with a Xamarin Forms previewer and improved IntelliSense for Xamarin Forms XAML.

An improved Git integration will be liked by devops. Visual Studio now makes use of the Git executables. Overall, more Git functionality is available directly within the DE.

Talking about the supported platforms, Visual Studio 2017 will run on Windows 7 Service Pack 1, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 (version 1507 or newer), Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials Standard and Datacenter, and Windows Server 2016 Standard and Datacenter.

Release Date: June 9, 2017 - Visual Studio 2017 version 15.2 (26430.13):

Issues Fixed in this Release

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in this version:

- Update to Visual Studio (version 15.2) solution loading caused forced restart.
- Visual Studio 2017 randomly restarts after 15.2 update.

Release Date: May 30, 2017 - Visual Studio 2017 version 15.2 (26430.12)

Issues Fixed in this Release

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in this version:

- Compilation fails because proces cannot access dll (after VS2017 update 2 (v15.2)).
- Visual Studio 2017 (version 15.2) freezes without network connection.
- The Visual Studio 2017 (version 15.2) update can cause incorrect versions of vcmeta.dll to be installed.
- Added support for Service Fabric 5.6 release/2.6 SDK which enables using ServicePackageActivationMode="ExlusiveProcess".
- R tools for Visual Studio 2017 won't install on Windows 7.

Additional fixes included in this release:

- Fixed a possible F# regression related to exception: "This stream does not support writing at System.IO.Compression.DeflateStream.BeginWrite".
- Fixed an issue where Xamarin iOS apps were not building correctly.
- Fixed a performance degradation sometimes occurring in Xamarin Android apps.
- Fix for trouble connecting to Android debugger.
- Fix for csproj losing multidex support when upgrading to 4.5.


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Product: Microsoft Visual Studio
Version: 2017 version 15.2 (26430.13) Off-Line Content ISO
Supported Architectures: 32bit / 64bit
Website Home Page : www.visualstudio.com
Language: english, russian
System Requirements: PC
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7even SP1 / 8.x / 10 / Server 2012 R2 / 2016
Size: 24.5 Gb