Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5.1

Tech giant Microsoft has announced the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5.1. 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.

Release Date: December 7, 2017 - Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5.1

Top Issues Fixed in this Release

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

- Wrong xamarin.forms version referenced in template.
- Switching branches in Git breaks IntelliSense.
- Errors reported when none exist (Visual Basic projects).
- Xamarin now supports Xcode 9.2:
. This fixes the customer reported issues with storyboards and remoted simulator.


About Microsoft Visual Studio 2017. 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.

About Microsoft. Microsoft Corporation, leading developer of personal-computer software systems and applications. The company also publishes books and multimedia titles, offers e-mail services, and sells electronic game systems, computer peripherals (input/output devices), and portable media players. It has sales offices throughout the world.

Product: Microsoft Visual Studio
Version: 2017 version 15.5.1
Supported Architectures: 32bit / 64bit
Website Home Page : www.visualstudio.com
Language: english
System Requirements: PC
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7even SP1 / 8.x / 10 / Server 2012 R2 / 2016
Size: 30.9 Gb