Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9.18

Tech giant Microsoft is pleased to announce the availability of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9.18. 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 15.9.18 Servicing Update - Date: December 10, 2019

Issues Fixed
- May allow mitigation of a Per-Monitor awareness related crash in Visual Studio
Security Advisory Notices
- Git for Visual Studio Remote Excecution Vulnerability due to too lax restrictions on submodule names
- Git for Visual Studio Remote Excecution Vulnerability due to incorrect quoting of command-line arguments
- Git for Visual Studio Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability due to usage of non-letter drive names during clone
- Git for Visual Studio Remote Excecution Vulnerability due to unawareness of NTFS Alternate Data Streams
- Git for Visual Studio Arbitrary File Overwrite Vulnerability due to not refusing to write out tracked files containing backslashes
- Git for Visual Studio Remote Execution Vulnerability due to too lax validation of submodule names in recursive clones

In release Visual Studio 2017, 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 15.9.18
Supported Architectures: 32bit / 64bit
Website Home Page : www.visualstudio.com
Language: english, русский
System Requirements: PC *
Supported Operating Systems: *
Size: 43.9 Gb