Download Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 16.0.1 / 2017 15.9.11

Microsoft has released version 16.0.1 of Visual Studio 2019, and a few days earlier also version 15.9.11 of Visual Studio 2017. This popular programming development environment has handy options for programming in Visual C++, Visual Basic, C#, F#, Making Python and R easier. You can read the entire laundry list of changes from the 2019 edition in the accompanying release notesfor the 2017 release there are also release notes. The changes to these releases are as follows:

Issues fixed in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.0.1

• Add option for Windows (UWP) platform when creating new Xamarin.Forms project from ‘Mobile App (Xamarin.Forms)’ project template.
• Help > About window title in Visual Studio 2019 still shows ‘RC’ after upgrade.
• When updating Visual Studio 2019 from RC to GA, RC shortcuts for Visual Studio are left behind.
• Visual Studio 2019 Preview 1.1 cannot create a UWP xamarin form.
• Package load failure starting Visual Studio 2019 after upgrade from Preview 4.4 to 16.0.

Issues Fixed in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9.11

• Access violation C++ /CLI 15.9.5 ISO C++ Latest Draft Standard since 15.9.5.
• PGO Code Gen Bug – Vectorized instruction accessing memory OOB.
• Visual Studio completely freezes when editing package.json.
• An error occurred loading this property page (CSS & JSON).
• Clicking on a web app URL in the Azure activity log now successfully publishes a Cloud Service Project.
• You can now publish to a Function app even if you are not logged into the account that contains the function app.
• We have fixed an unhandled exception in the HTML editor.
• We have updated the scaffolding package to install Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.CodeGeneration.Design package version 2.1.9 for .NET Core 2.1 and version 2.2.3 for .NET Core 2.2.
• We have implemented a C++ compiler fix to correct exception handling support for code using setjmp/longjmp in Release mode.
• We have implemented a C++ linker fix regarding information in PDB where the incorrect module info could result in heap corruption when producing a stripped PDB file either by PDBCopy.exe or by link.exe when option /PDBSTRIPPED is specified.
• We have corrected dual signing of the ARM64 Visual C++ Redistributable installer.