Download Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 15.8.8

Microsoft has released version 15.8.8 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 15.8.8

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.8.8:

• /DEBUG:FASTLINK no debug info for STL types included via PCH.
• Bad codegen seen in 15.8 RTW compiler.
• Heap corruption in stack unwinding when inlining function.
• Left consumes 6 GB of memory for specific test case.