Download Visual Studio 2022 17.5.5

Microsoft has released version 17.5.5 of Visual Studio 2022. This popular programming development environment, available for Windows and macOS, has useful options to make programming in Visual C++, Visual Basic, C#, F# and Python easier. The new version is fully 64bit and has a new simplified user interface. More information about version 17.5 is available this page from Microsoft. The following changes and improvements have been made in this update:

Issues Addressed in this release of 17.5.5

• Fix for intermittent VS crash while scrolling Windows Forms .NET designer.
• .NET 3.1 went out of support in December 2022. Mark it out of support in the Visual Studio setup UI so that it’s visible to customers and can be removed with the new “Remove out of support components” button in Visual Studio setup.

Developer Community Highlights

• Windows Forms designer since VS 17.5: “Unable to cast object of type ‘System.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand’ to type ‘Microsoft.Data.SqlClient.SqlCommand’.
• Quick Watch dialog issues after VS 2022 17.5 update
• Visual Studio 2022 crashes in design view