Download Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 15.9.17

Microsoft released version 15.9.17 of Visual Studio 2017 a few days ago. This programming development environment has useful options to make programming in Visual C ++, Visual Basic, C #, F #, Python and R easier. The entire laundry list of changes from the 2017 release can be found in the accompanying release notes. The changes in this release look like this:

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9.17

Security Advisory Notices: NPM Package Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9.16

Issues Fixed in 15.9.16

• Assembly does not match code for function
• System.InvalidProgramException: Common Language Runtime detected an invalid program. when instrumenting x64 projects
• Cross-EH mode inlining of noexcept code produces unexpected behavior
• Corrected issue with HTML Help Workshop failing to repair.

Security Advisory Notices

• Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
• Denial of Service Vulnerability in .NET Core

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9.15

Issues Fixed in 15.9.15

• Updated signing of VC Redist packages to enable continued deployment on Windows XP. This fix may have an increased chance of requiring a reboot of the machine in order to install an updated VC ++ Redistributable package.
• Fixed in issue where GoToDefinition does not work for JavaScript in script blocks of cshtml files.
• Calling pmr monotonic_buffer_resource release will corrupt memory.
• Fix for HRESULT E_FAIL build error in some C ++ projects when upgrading to 15.9.13

Security Advisory Notices: Git for Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9.14

Issues Fixed in 15.9.14

• Fixed a bug causing Visual Studio 2017 crashes when switching branches.
• Fixed a bug causing internal compiler error (fbtctree.cpp ‘, line 5540) during code analysis.
• Fixed a performance regression in memcpy / memset for Ryzen processors.
• Updated Service Fabric tooling to support the 6.5 Service Fabric release.
• Enabled screen reader to announce TeamExplorer’s notifications properly on .NET 4.8.
• VS2017 15.8 Internal compiler error (‘msc1.cpp’, line 1518): Conflict between preprocessor and #import.
• ICE in PREfast 19.16.27023.1 (15.9 RTW).

Security Advisory Notices

• Visual Studio Extension Auto Update Vulnerability
• Visual Studio WorkFlowMarkUpDeserializerRCE Vulernability
• ASP.NET Core Spoofing Vulnerability

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9.13

Issues Fixed in 15.9.13

• Fixed a bug that caused Code Analysis to stop running on some C ++ projects.
• Fixed a bug in the Schema Compare Tool where adding tables with an empty schema failed but was shown as successful.
• Fixed a TypeScript build issue when the selected language version is lower than the latest installed.
• Fixed a Database unresolved reference to object error.
• Improved performance issues on loading Visual Studio.
• Fixed known issue: No snapshot created for C ++ native code in Memory Usage tool in the Diagnostic Tools window while debugging ..
• Fixed known issue: SSDT adds hardcoded mmsdb and / or master.dacpac path
• Fixed known issue: SSDT Add reference to System Database: “ArtifactReference” and “HintPath” swapped causing build failure when using MSBuild