Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8.6

Tech giant Microsoft is pleased to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8.6. 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 15.8.6 - released on October 02, 2018:

Summary of What's New in 15.8.6
- The latest Windows 10 SDK is available.
Top Issues Fixed in 15.8.6
These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.8.6:
- NuGet packages for Intellisense are broken.
- Visual Studio closes after opening sln.
- App.Config XML editor still freezing in 15.8.4.
Details of What's New in 15.8.6
- Latest Windows 10 SDK for Universal Windows Platform developers
The latest Windows 10 SDK (build 17763) is now available as an optional component for the Universal Windows Platform development workload. You can add this SDK to the workload by selecting the Windows 10 SDK (10.0.17763.0) checkbox.


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 15.8.6
Supported Architectures: 32bit / 64bit
Website Home Page : www.visualstudio.com
Language: multilanguage
System Requirements: PC
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7even SP1 or newer / Server 2012 R2 or 2016
Size: 42.1 Gb