Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8.2 with Build Tools

Tech giant Microsoft is pleased to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8.2. 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.

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8.2 New Release - released on August 28, 2018:

Top Issues Fixed in 15.8.2

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.8.2:

- Publish single file context menu item missing.
- Git network operations not working: Cannot spawn git-askpass.exe.
- "Visual C++ Resource Editor Package" load failed.
- Preview Transform gives error.
- Cannot type close brace.
- Object reference not set to an instance of an object when deploying Service Fabric project after update 15.8.0.
- "The given path's format is not supported" installation error.
- Task ExpandPriContent failed. Illegal characters in path.
- "Could not create instance of type System.Collections.Genertic.Iset'1[Signer]" installer error.
- Service fabric deployment fails in 15.8.0.
- Cannot create app package for Windows store.
- Incorrect code generation for strongly-typed resources.
- Keyboard binding for Italian layout.
- IntelliSense broken #9999.
- When working on a Unity project and Unity rewrites multiple project files, the Visual Studio Tools for Unity will now automatically reload the solution.
- The customer will now get a dialog to close Office applications if they are blocking the Visual Studio install and causing a failure of 1303.

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 Visual Studio 2017 Build Tools. These tools allow you to build C++ libraries and applications targeting Windows desktop. They are the same tools that you find in Visual Studio 2017 in a scriptable standalone installer. Now you only need to download the tools you need to build C++ projects. The Visual C++ Build Tools download is refreshed to include every Visual Studio update. Visual Studio updates won't install on top of the Visual C++ Build Tools installation.

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 15.8.2 (15.8.28010.2016) DVD with Build Tools and Update 15.8.1 to 15.8.2
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: 60.3 Gb