Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6.5

Tech giant Microsoft has announced the release of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.6.5 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 15.6.5 Servicing Update - released on April 4, 2018:

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in this release:

- VS 15.6 does not respect the 'apply server settings to all users (store in project file)'.
- Project could not be opened because Visual C# 2017 compiler was not created.
- NuGet Package Manager only sees latest package versions after manually clearing cache.
- Lost IIS Server Settings.
- Visual Studio hangs during Nuget package update.
- Installer throws unexpected error and saved changes to Solution2.sln are not saved.
- C:\Windows\temp fills up with .itrace files after upgrade to 15.5.6.
- vstest.console.exe fails test run with socket exception.
- This release includes support for Xcode 9.3.

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 15.6.5 (15.6.27428.2027) DVD and Update Only
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: 36.4 Gb