Software Update: Microsoft Visual Studio 2022 17.2.5

Microsoft has released version 17.2.5 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 17.2.5

• Fixed bug in VC++ Runtime with broken links for MFC OLE Linking/Embedding Containers
• Fixed an issue where a SxS install of VS2022 and VS2015 (or older) causes VS to fail scanning for extensions.
• Improved validation of container names when provisioning Azure Container Apps.

From Developer Community

• Managed C++ breaks on macro expansion with template deducing casts additional fix
• error LNK2016: absolute symbol ‘@comp.id’ used as target of REL32 relocation in section 0x9
• “CL.exe” exited with code -1073740791
• __imp___std_init_once_complete unresolved external symbol after linking msvcprtd.lib
• fatal error LNK1103: debugging information corrupt; recompile module
• An MFC App Crashes on second run.
• Designer fails when using MVVMLightLibs in VS2022
• Visual Studio 2022 Professional is no longer useable after installing the Visual Studio Installer Project Extension