Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9.7

Tech giant Microsoft is pleased to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9.7. 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 15.9.7 Release - February 12, 2019:

Issues Fixed in 15.9.7

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.9.7:
- Crashes when expanding variables!.
- /DEBUG:FASTLINK + C7 + PCH crashes debugger.
- Native C++ application crashes because of stack corruption with VS 2017 15.9.2.
- Incorrect Release Mode code.
- Xamarin Unobserved Task Exception WebRequest.
- Link /SOURCELINK option seems to do nothing. This fixes Source Link for Managed C++ Debugging.
- Fixed an issue with corruption of AVX/MPX/AVX512 registers while Debugging.
- Update of Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDestkop framework packages for C++ UWP DesktopBridge applications adding support for ARM64.
- Corrected incorrect version of VCToolsRedistVersion in Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.default.props.
- Corrected unsigned embedded dll for VC Redist installers.
- SSDT/Web Tools: We fixed an issue where SQL LocalDB was not installed on Polish, Turkish, and Czech locales.
- SSDT: We fixed an issue affecting SQL Server Analysis Services (Method not found exception when clicking on UI).
- SSDT: We fixed an accessibility issue which was causing the contents of a table not to be visible in the result window when using High-Contrast mode.
Security Advisory Notices
- WorkflowDesigner XOML deserialization allows code execution.
- .NET Framework and Visual Studio Spoofing Vulnerability.

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.

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 15.9.7 (build 15.9.28307.423)
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: 44.1 Gb