Download Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 15.9.5

Microsoft has released version 15.9.5 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 15.9.5:

• VSX1000: No enough information has been provided to MSBuild in order to establish a connection to a Remote Server.
• Visual C++ 2017 Redistributable for ARM64 is not available via visualstudio.com.
• VC Runtime Redistributable Update for VS 15.9 deletes Registry Key. This fix may have an increased chance of requiring a reboot of the machine in order to install an updated VC++ Redistributable package.
• Incorrect codegen in managed c++ with List to List assignment.
• Can’t connect to mac build host after Visual Studio 15.9.4 update.
• Resource directories missed in incremental builds with AndroidAarLibrary items.
• Lots of external assembly references – JNI ERROR (app bug): local reference table overflow (max=512).
• The Unity Editor has been updated to 2018.3. For more information, please visit the Unity website.
• SSDT: We enabled SQL projects to build schemas that have non-clustered columnstore indexes on an indexed views.
• SSDT: We fixed a significant performance issue in the schema compare tool when generating a script.
• SSDT: We fixed the schema drift detection logic in the schema compare tool which forced a new comparison to reenable scripting and publishing actions.