Download Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 16.5.4

Microsoft has released a fourth update for version 16.5.0 of Visual Studio 2019. This popular programming development environment has useful options to make programming easier in Visual C++, Visual Basic, C#, F#, Python and R, among others. The complete list of the changes in the 2019 edition can be found in the accompanying release notes. Below are the improvements Microsoft has made in this version:

Fixed In This Release of Visual Studio 2019 version 16.5.4:

• Modified the find “List View” to work with the VsColorOutput extension.
• Fixed a regression introduced with version 16.5 where use of default indexed properties with value-types caused an internal compiler error.
• Modified find in files to preserve user settings between Visual Studio 2019 sessions.
• Fixed an issue where Goto next/previous entry failed to work in the find results list when “preview selected files in find results” is turned off.
• Fixed an issue with find when doing a regex search a pattern that did not contain regex special characters.
• Fixed the button placement in find in files tool window when its in a docked position. Changed alignments for better experience in docked mode.
• Fixed an issue where the find list view did not navigate to results when enter was hit.
• Fixed an issue where Goto next/previous entry failed to work in the find results list when “preview selected files in find results” is turned off.

Security Advisory Notice

• CVE-2020-0899 Microsoft Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
  An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when Microsoft Visual Studio updater service improperly handles file permissions. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could overwrite arbitrary file content in the security context of the local system.
• CVE-2020-0900 Visual Studio Extension Installer Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
  An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Visual Studio Extension Installer Service improperly handles file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could delete files in arbitrary locations with elevated permissions.
• CVE-2020-5260 Git for Visual Studio Credential Leak Vulnerability due to insufficient validation on URLs
  A credential leak vulnerability exists when specially crafted URLs are parsed and sent to credential helpers. This can lead to credentials being sent to the wrong host.