Download Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 15.6.3

Microsoft has released version 15.6.3 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:

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6.3 – Issues Fixed in this Release

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in this release:

• Esc key doesn’t close Peek Definition Window.
• wpp.targets file execution not working after update to version 15.6.
• Project loaded via File->Open->CMake throws exception and CMake cache is not generated..
• Version 15.6 update crashes Xamarin code with NullReferenceException with next scenario.
• XCode Tools installation fails after version 15.6 update.
• Anaconda 5.0.0 Completion DB is not up to date and hitting refresh fails.
• Cannot run NUnit tests after version 15.6.1 update.
• Visual Studio 2017 fails to launch from the command line when launched using 8.3 file name path.
• Version 15.6.0 breaks when VisualStudio\Telemetry\TurnOffSwitch is set to 0.
• Visual Studio Community 2017 auto closes after version 15.6 update..
• CMake generation never stops after version 15.6.1 update.
• Opening a solution with tests, and clicking any toolbar item in Test Explorer causes VS to crash.

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6.2 – Issues Fixed in this Release

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in this release:

• “Specified argument out of the range of valid values, parameter name: count” git tags.
• Cannot open git commit details.
• VS2017 Installer crashes on Modify when SyncFusion WPF Templates are installed.
• Test Explorer loses position when tests are run.
• Test explorer test hierarchy constantly jumps to top.
• XAML editor always crashes when a change is made to the XAML file.
• Test Explorer keeps scrolling to the top when a new test starts.
• Viewing Git History shows: specified argument was out of range of values.
• Alt+Up/Down does not reposition file in .NET Framework projects.
• VS 15.6 deadlocks on solution load for .NET Core SDK project when a ‘None Include’ is added to file list.
• 15.6 preview 6 discovers test adapter, but fails to run tests.
• Test Explorer keeps scrolling to the top when a new test starts.
• Microsoft Security Advisories for .NET Core updates.