Download Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 15.8.1

Microsoft has released version 15.8.1 of Visual Studio 2017. This popular programming development environment has useful options to make programming easier in Visual C++, Visual Basic, C#, F#, Python, and R, among others. You can read the entire laundry list of changes from the 2017 edition in the accompanying release notes† The changes in this release are as follows:

Top Issues Fixed in 15.8.1

These are the issues addressed in 15.8.1:

• Fixed an issue where Visual Studio would close unexpectedly when a browser window was closed while debugging a Web project.

What’s New in 15.8

The Visual Studio Blog is the official source of product insight from the Visual Studio Engineering Team. You can find in-depth information about the Visual Studio version 15.8 releases in the following posts:

• The Visual Studio Blog – Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8