Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5.6

Tech giant Microsoft has announced the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5.6. 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: January 29, 2018 - Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5.6:

What's New in this Release
- Service Fabric Tooling for the 6.1 Service Fabric release.

Release Date: January 25, 2018 - Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5.5:

Summary: What's New in this Release
- The MSVC compiler has been updated with support for the /Qspectre switch which will automatically insert a speculation barrier when the compiler detects instances of Spectre variant 1. For more information about /Qspectre please refer to the Visual C++ Team Blog.
Issues Fixed in this Release
These are the customer-reported issues addressed in this release:
- Xamarin app throws Cannot access a disposed object. Object name: 'MobileAuthenticatedStream'error.
- Xamarin.Android app throws ClassNotFoundException when deriving from Application class.
- Upgrading may cause previously installed Windows and Android SDKs to be uninstalled.
- Bumped JDK 8 to the latest version to avoid download failures from Oracle website.

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 15.5.6 (15.5.27130.2027)
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: 30.5 Gb