Download Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 17.0.6

Microsoft has released version 17.0.6 of Visual Studio 2022. This popular programming development environment has useful options to make programming easier in Visual C++, Visual Basic, C#, F# and Python, among others. The new version is fully 64bit and has a new simplified user interface. More information about version 17.0 is in this announcement from Microsoft and on our front page. The following changes and improvements have been made in this update:

Issues Addressed in this release of 17.0.6

• Updated the Visual Studio installer to properly record channel metadata
• Added expiration date information to the 17.0 LTSC channel
• Released Bulletins in the Visual Studio Installer for an install or update.
• Updated the Visual Studio installer to improve the experience for remote enterprise deployment.
• Updated the GitHub add account experience to improve its success rate

Security Advisory Notice

• CVE-2022-21986 Vulnerability A Denial of Service vulnerability exists in .NET 5.0 and .NET 6.0 when the Kestrel web server processes certain HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 requests