Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5.0

Tech giant Microsoft has announced the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5.0 (build 27130.0). This release focuses on increasing the productivity and making it easier to create applications for mobile and cloud. A lightweight and modular installation is also a highlight feature.

Release Date: December 4, 2017 - Visual Studio 2017 version 15.5

Summary: What's New in this Release

- We added reliability and cancellability to the Visual Studio IDE installer.
- We've updated the error dialog to display more information to help solve installation problems.
- We reduced load times of large C# and Visual Basic projects.
- You can now work with Git submodules and worktrees, and configure fetch.prune and pull.rebase in Team Explorer.
- Find information on the .NET Core and ASP.NET Core security advisories.
- The MSVC compiler toolset has been updated to version 14.12.
- C# compiler now supports the 7.2 set of language features.
- We added .NET Core SDK project support to F# tooling and changed the way you acquire F#.
- We added Visual C++ Improvements to the Standard Template library.
- We improved the Razor syntax formatting in the Visual Studio Web Tools.
- Docker containers now support multi-stage Dockerfiles.
- You now have Angular 2 Support for inline and .ngml template files.
- You can now open projects exported from the ARM online compiler in Visual Studio.
- Open folder now supports remote tasks for using any remote build system or running arbitrary commands.
- We added Embedded Source support while debugging, and Edit and Continue support for Embedded PDBs.
- The WCF Web Service Reference for .Net Core is now part of Visual Studio 15.5.
- You can debug in-production apps with the Snapshot Debugger.
- IntelliTrace's Step-back debugging feature is now supported.
- You can access Azure resources from Visual Studio with Conditional Access enabled.
- Office Web Add-in projects and VSTO Projects now support development with Office in the Windows Store.
- Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin contains updated support for the Xamarin SDKs for iOS and Android.
- Unity projects are now automatically reloaded in Visual Studio when you add or remove a Unity script.
- Test Explorer now supports Google test framework by default.
- You can now preview XAML live as you type in the Android emulator.
- The Windows Packaging Project now allows you to include UWP components like: BackgroundTasks, AppServiceConnection, or FullTrustProcessLauncher.
- You can now configure continuous delivery from the project publish workflow to automatically deploy your project to Azure on every code change to your repo.

Top Issues Fixed in this Release

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in this release:
- Save All tries to save closed .sql query tabs.
- bin\roslyn files locked during build.
- Since Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3, breakpoints don't work when the charset of the file is not the same as the one in .editorconfig (utf8 or utf8-bom).
- Package 'Microsoft.Net.4.6.FullRedist.NonThreshold,version=4.6.81.9' fails to repair.
- Visual Studio 2017 has a conflict with OneDrive on demand (Windows 10 insider build).
- Access Denied error when creating registry keys on Windows 7.
- Disabled startpage is opened when project is closed.
- Missing icons after update.
- Visual Studio 2017 works slowly during ASP.NET debugging.
- Visual Studio 2017 builds slowly.
- Visual Studio may freeze or crash when running on a pen-enabled machine


About Microsoft Visual Studio 2017. In this release, Microsoft has focused on four areas — productivity and performance, mobile, cloud, and devops. In its release notes, Microsoft said that 2017 release brings a lightweight and modular installation experience. It allows the developers to only get the components they need. Microsoft also claims that Visual Studio 2017 starts up to 3 times faster as compared to Visual Studio 2015. This release is designed to support teams in a better manner, it comes with tools to provide for developing NET Core 1.0 and 1.1 apps, microservices, and Docker containers. Xamarin integration in Visual Studio 2017 has been made better with a Xamarin Forms previewer and improved IntelliSense for Xamarin Forms XAML. An improved Git integration will be liked by devops. Visual Studio now makes use of the Git executables. Overall, more Git functionality is available directly within the DE.

About Microsoft. Microsoft Corporation, leading developer of personal-computer software systems and applications. The company also publishes books and multimedia titles, offers e-mail services, and sells electronic game systems, computer peripherals (input/output devices), and portable media players. It has sales offices throughout the world.

Product: Microsoft Visual Studio
Version: 2017 version 15.5.0 (build 27130.0) ISO
Supported Architectures: 32bit / 64bit
Website Home Page : www.visualstudio.com
Language: english, russian
System Requirements: PC
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7even SP1 / 8.x / 10 / Server 2012 R2 / 2016
Size: 29.7 Gb