Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9.21

Tech giant Microsoft is pleased to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9.21 (15.9.28307.1064). 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 15.9.21 Servicing Update - Date: March 10, 2020

Issues Fixed in 15.9.21
- Fixed a bug where the .NET Profiling tools couldn't be installed on non-enterprise versions of Visual Studio 2017 when using an offline installer.
- Fixed C++ compiler bug where a static_cast in a decltype would evaluate incorrectly. To minimize disruptions to existing codebases, in VS2017 this fix takes effect when the (newly added) /d1decltypeIdentityConversion switch is thrown.
- New Spectre mitigation options in C++ compiler: /Qspectre-load & /Qspectre-load-cf for speculative load hardening.

Security Advisory Notices
- Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
- A spoofing vulnerability exists when creating an Outlook Web-Addin if multi-factor authentication is enabled


In release Visual Studio 2017, 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.

This video shows how Visual Studio 2017 includes support for great mobile development, streamlines cloud development, and greatly boosts developer productivity with improvements for everything from IntelliSense to Unit Testing to performance.


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Product: Microsoft Visual Studio
Version: 2017 version 15.9.21 (15.9.28307.1064)
Supported Architectures: 32bit / 64bit
Website Home Page : www.visualstudio.com
Language: english, русский
System Requirements: PC *
Supported Operating Systems: *
Size: 44.0 Gb