Software Update: Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 15.7.4

Microsoft has released version 15.7.4 of Visual Studio 2017. This popular programming development environment has useful options to make programming easier in Visual C++, Visual Basic, C#, F#, Python, and R, among others. You can read the entire laundry list of changes from the 2017 edition in the accompanying release notes. The changes in this release are as follows:

Top Issues Fixed in 15.7.4

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.7.4:

• Green squiggles and light bulb with “Macro in skipped region” message.
• F7 does not switch to code.
• F7 does not build anymore.
• F7 build does not work.
• LINK : error : Telemetry event upload failed: ‘Failed to open connection to VCTIP’.
• AXML file doesn’t open after update.
• F7 no longer toggles between the designer and the code.
• XAML Editor Error: Window is not supported in WPF project.
• WinForms View.ToggleDesigner does not work as it used to.
• Toggle designer key binding lost.
• F7 does not start a new build.
• F7 no longer toggles between Designer and Code views.
• There is a problem with structure definition in C language.
• Provisioning a new SQL Server and new SQL DB in a different region than the App Service plan fails.

Git Security Vulnerability
We also fixed a security vulnerability in Git that was disclosed by the Git community. The vulnerability can lead to arbitrary code execution when a user clones a malicious repository. This blog post has more information.

Top Issues Fixed in 15.7.3

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.7.3:

• VS2017 compiler creates broken debug build using Qt framework and generates ‘Invalid address specified to RtlValidateHeap’ error.
• Incorrect code generation for matrix multiplication.
• VS 2017 Update 7: Git History Codelens only showing entries for the past 6 months.
• UWP projects reference multiple NetStandard 2.0 dlls after 15.7.1 upgrade.
• Building C++ code in VS 15.7 with /std:c++17 breaks binary compatibility for std::_Ptr_move_cat.
• Visual Studio 15.7 stuck when opening XAML files.
• CMake configuration fails and generates message “C++ IntelliSense information may be out of date, generate the CMake cache to refresh”.
• Unable to start second process for debugging.
• After update to Visual Studio 15.7.1, some test programs fail in start-up due to reading access violation.
• Missing compiler required member ‘Microsoft.CSharp.RuntimeBinder.Binder.Convert’.
• Build fails after 15.7.0 update on older project using .NET 3.5 .
• Certain class member variable value are incorrectly read as zero.
• Attempt to open XAML file for the first time causes VS to sit with the “Opening the file …” message for about 10 minutes before XAML file opens.
• Visual Studio slows down and freezes, creating work loss.
• The target “GetBuiltProjectOutputRecursive” does not exist in the project.
• Internal error with lambda C++17 after 15.7.1 update.
• UWP XAML is very very slow on open.
• MSVC auto-vectorization produces incorrect code or incorrect results.
• Visual Studio closed debug a new instance project1, when a new debug new instance project2 has started.
• Latest update breaks “start without debugging” on multiple projects.
• UWP XAML is very very slow on open.
• XAML viewer freezes on 15.7.2 and 15.8.0 preview 1.1.
• Xamarin UI Test App project template missing.
• Xamarin project creation problem.
• Visual Studio crashes when creating new Mobile APP Xamarin.
• Unable to create Xamarin.Forms-Projects.
• Não consigo criar novos projetos Xamarin Forms – Can’t create new projects Xamarin Forms.
• Blank project crash after update.