Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6.6 with Build Tools

Tech giant Microsoft has announced the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6.6. 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.

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6.6 Servicing Update - released on April 10, 2018:

Summary of Updates in this Release

- Microsoft Security Advisories for Microsoft Visual Studio Information Disclosure Vulnerability.

CVE-2018-1037: An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Visual Studio improperly discloses limited contents of uninitialized memory while compiling program database (PDB) files. An attacker who took advantage of this information disclosure could view uninitialized memory from the Visual Studio instance used to compile the PDB file.
To take advantage of the vulnerability, an attacker would require access to an affected PDB file created using a vulnerable version of Visual Studio. An attacker would have no way to force a developer to produce this information disclosure.
The security update addresses the vulnerability by correcting how PDB files are generated when a project is compiled.
These are the customer-reported issues addressed in this release:
This release addresses an issue where some Application Insights users were not seeing CodeLens requests and exceptions indicators when the solution first loads.


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 Visual Studio 2017 Build Tools. These tools allow you to build C++ libraries and applications targeting Windows desktop. They are the same tools that you find in Visual Studio 2017 in a scriptable standalone installer. Now you only need to download the tools you need to build C++ projects. The Visual C++ Build Tools download is refreshed to include every Visual Studio update. Visual Studio updates won't install on top of the Visual C++ Build Tools installation.

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Product: Microsoft Visual Studio
Version: 2017 version 15.6.5 (15.6.27428.2027) DVD with Build Tools & Update Only
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: 46.4 Gb