Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9.12

Tech giant Microsoft is pleased to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9.12. 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 15.9.12 New Release - released on May 14, 2019:

Issues Fixed in 15.9.12

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.9.12:

- Access violation C++ /CLI 15.9.5 ISO C++ Latest Draft Standard since 15.9.5.
- An error occurred loading this property page (CSS & JSON).
- Visual Studio 2017 crashing when editing package.json.
- Opening package.json locks up Visual Studio.
- PGO Code Gen Bug - Vectorized instruction accessing memory OOB.
- Bad code gen in recursive bucket split routine.
- Compiler optimization bug in 15.8.9.
- We have fixed a linker error LNK4020 when using PCH, /Zi, and /GL in distributed build systems, such as IncrediBuild. The C++ compiler backend now correctly associates CIL OBJs with their corresponding compiler generated PDB when generating debug info for cross-module inlining.

Security Advisory Notices

- CVE-2019-0727 Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability

An elevation of privilege vulnerability exists when the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector Service improperly performs certain file operations. An attacker who successfully exploited this vulnerability could delete files in arbitrary locations. To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would require unprivileged access to a vulnerable system. The security update addresses the vulnerability by securing locations the Diagnostics Hub Standard Collector performs file operations in.


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.

This video shows how Visual Studio 2017 includes support for great mobile development, streamlines cloud development, and greatly boosts developer productivity with improvements for everything from IntelliSense to Unit Testing to performance.


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Product: Microsoft Visual Studio
Version: 2017 version 15.9.12 (build 15.9.28307.665)
Supported Architectures: 32bit / 64bit
Website Home Page : www.visualstudio.com
Language: english, русский
System Requirements: PC
Supported Operating Systems: Windows 7even SP1 / 8.x / 10 / Server 2012 R2 / 2016
Size: 44.0 Gb