Download Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 15.9.4

Microsoft has released version 15.9.4 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 following improvements have been made in this release:

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.9.4:

• Visual Studio 15.9 duplicate loads open files on solution reload.
• All users can now connect to on-premise TFS servers through Team Explorer.
• Visual Studio 15.8.3 no longer expands metadata in ItemDefinitionGroup for project-defined items during GUI builds (worked in Visual Studio 15.8.2).
• Visual Studio has multiple tabs for the same file.
• System.ArgumentException: The parameter is incorrect. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070057 (E_INVALIDARG)).
• LNK4099 PDB not found.
• Asset Catalog empty.
• /analyze fails for C++ code using /ZW.
• C++ compiler code optimization bug.
• Xamarin.iOS can’t select image asset for Image View.
• iOS projects referencing a shared project containing image assets in an asset catalog fail to load on windows.
• Image not populating on iOS splash screen in VS 15.8.6.
• Possible bad codegen on union/bitfield assignment in VS2017 15.8.
• Fix C# UWP Store 1201 Submission Issue.
• Fix C# UWP package creation error APPX1101: Payload contains two or more files with the same destination path ‘System.Runtime.CompilerServices.Unsafe.dll’.
• Error MT2002: Failed to resolve ‘System.Runtime.CompilerServices.AsyncValueTaskMethodBuilder’ reference from ‘System.Threading.Tasks.Extensions…'” when building a Xamarin.iOS project.
• Redirecting to a relative url doesn’t work when using AndroidClientHandler.
• Debug information for typedefs of unnamed enums compiled with the C compiler is now restored.
• The spectre-mitigated x86 version of delayimp.lib is now built with /Qspectre mitigations enabled.
• Changes were made to how Asset Catalogs in Xamarin.iOS projects are loaded in order to reduce solution load time.
• We have updated Xamarin.Forms templates to use the latest version.
• We have fixed an issue with ASP.NET Core Web Applications being debugged through Kestrel that would show the error message “Unable to configure HTTPS endpoint. No server certificate was specified…”.
• Enabling the AppInsights site extension in App Service from Visual Studio now happens through the use of specific Application Settings.

Security Advisory Notices

• An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service improperly handles certain file operations.