Software Update: Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 17.2.4

Microsoft has released version 17.2.4 of Visual Studio 2022. This popular programming development environment has useful options to make programming easier in Visual C++, Visual Basic, C#, F# and Python, among others. The new version is fully 64bit and has a new simplified user interface. More information about version 17.2 is in this announcement from Microsoft. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Issues Addressed in this release of 17.2.4

• Updated the side by side Dev 16.11 C++ Toolset to version 14.29.30145.00. The latest version of the Dev 16.11 C++ Toolset contains important bug fixes, including fixing all remaining C++20 defect reports. For information about bug fixes, including C++20 defect reports in Dev 16.11, please see here†
• Fixed a Potential hang the first time a package is loaded (when we apply that package’s settings via DTE.Properties) or in other scenarios that use DTE.Properties

From Developer Community

• Zero unit tests code coverage after updating VS 2022 tools to 17.2
• Fixed an issue when the HostPath package fails with exit code 259, the exit code will be suppressed and reported as a warning, allowing Visual Studio setup to complete

Security Advisory

• CVE-2022-30184 .NET Information Disclosure Vulnerability A vulnerability exists in .NET 6.0 and .NET Core 3.1 within NuGet where a credential leak can occur.