Software Update: Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 15.9.2

Microsoft has released version 15.9.2 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:

Issues Fixed in 15.9.2

These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.9.2:

• MFC EXE (binary) size is 5 times bigger in VS 15.8 (_MSC_VER = 1915).
• Key ‘OPENSSH’ is not supported.
• Windows magnifier can no longer track keyboad cursor.
• Analysis fails with immediately-invoked lamba in while loop.
• Xamarin iOS designer not working with 15.9 and Xamarin.iOS 12.2.1.10.
• We improved the reliability of incremental linking for large C++ projects.
• LNK2001 “unresolved external symbol” errors for certain vector deleting destructors will now be resolved.
• Compiler execution time has been improved for code that makes heavy use of chained, inline functions involving lambdas or local classes as parameter or return types.