Download Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 15.9.7

Microsoft has released version 15.9.7 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:

Issues Fixed in 15.9.7

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.9.7:

• Crashes when expanding variables!.
• /DEBUG:FASTLINK + C7 + PCH crashes debugger.
• Native C++ application crashes because of stack corruption with VS 2017 15.9.2.
• Incorrect Release Mode code.
• Xamarin Unobserved Task Exception WebRequest.
• Link /SOURCELINK option seems to do nothing. This fixes Source Link for Managed C++ Debugging.
• Fixed an issue with corruption of AVX/MPX/AVX512 registers while Debugging.
• Update of Microsoft.VCLibs.140.00.UWPDestkop framework packages for C++ UWP DesktopBridge applications adding support for ARM64.
• Corrected incorrect version of VCToolsRedistVersion in Microsoft.VCToolsVersion.default.props.
• Corrected unsigned embedded dll for VC Redist installers.
• SSDT/Web Tools: We fixed an issue where SQL LocalDB was not installed on Polish, Turkish, and Czech locales.
• SSDT: We fixed an issue affecting SQL Server Analysis Services (Method not found exception when clicking on UI).
• SSDT: We fixed an accessibility issue which was causing the contents of a table not to be visible in the result window when using High-Contrast mode.

Security Advisory Notices

• WorkflowDesigner XOML deserialization allows code execution.
• .NET Framework and Visual Studio Spoofing Vulnerability.