Download Visual Studio 2022 17.6.5

Microsoft has released version 17.6.5 of Visual Studio 2022, a version with extended support. 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 17.6 is available this page from Microsoft. The changelog for version 17.6.5 looks like this:

What’s New in this Release

• Fixed an issue where switches over unsigned 64-bit integers could cause a crash on x86 and ARM targets.
• Fixes an issue in which users of Visual Basic with the Entity Framework Designer may have experienced compilation errors after saving an edmx file.

Developer Community Highlights

• WPF: XAML Designer has exited unexpectedly, ClickOnce does not work again.
• VS Community 2022 V.17.6.2: Error saving an .edmx file
• VSIXInstaller.exe in VS 2022 17.6.0 Preview 7: NullReferenceException, regression

Security Advisories Addressed

• CVE-2023-33127 .NET Remote Code Execution Vulnerability A vulnerability exists in .NET applications where the diagnostic server can be exploited to achieve cross-session/cross-user elevation of privilege (EoP) and code execution.
• CVE-2023-33170 .NET Security Feature Bypass Vulnerability A vulnerability exists in ASP.NET Core applications where account lockout maximum failed attempts may not be immediately updated, allowing an attacker to try more passwords.