Software Update: Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 16.8.1

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Shortly after the release of version 16.8 of Visual Studio 2019, Microsoft has already released a successor. This popular programming development environment has useful options to make programming easier in Visual C++, Visual Basic, C#, F#, Python and R, among others. The complete list of the changes in the 2019 edition can be found in the accompanying release notes† Version 16.8 adds support for .NET 5.0, among other things. Version 16.8.1 fixes an issue with the SourceExplorerPackage.

Issued Addressed in this Release of Visual Studio 2019 version 16.8.1

  • Fixed a high-impacting issue where “The ‘SourceExplorerPackage’ package did not load correctly.” warning pops up when cloning a repo in Team Explorer. When users encountered this problem, it would cause the product to stop responding

Version number 16.8.1
Release status Final
Operating systems Windows 7, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019
Website Microsoft
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License type Paid
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