Download Visual Studio 2022 17.5.4

Microsoft has released version 17.5.4 of Visual Studio 2022. This popular programming development environment, available for Windows and macOS, has useful options to make programming in Visual C++, Visual Basic, C#, F# and Python easier. The new version is fully 64bit and has a new simplified user interface. More information about version 17.5 is available this page from Microsoft. The following changes and improvements have been made in this release:

Issues Addressed in this release of 17.5.4

• This change fixes a crash when invalid input is sent to the driver used during PGO training for kernel mode drivers.
• Fixed MSVC template operator resolution with ISO C++17 and ISO C++20
• MSVC ASAN will ignore mapped-memory files when Rtl* memory functions are used to manipulate that memory.
• Updates .NET MAUI to 7.0.81 (SR4), see https://aka.ms/dotnet-maui-releases for release notes.
• Updates .NET iOS to 16.2.127.0, see release notes.
• Updates .NET Android to 33.0.46.0
• Addresses a fix in the configuration API that could lead to a double free vulnerability.
• VSIXInstaller has been updated to prevent trust warning from being hidden in the UI.

Security Advisories Addressed

• CVE-2023-28260 .NET Remote Code Execution Vulnerability A vulnerability exists in .NET running on Windows where a runtime DLL can be loaded from an unexpected location, resulting in remote code execution.
• CVE-2023-28296 Visual Studio Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
• CVE-2023-28299 Visual Studio Spoofing Vulnerability
• CVE-2023-28262 Visual Studio Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability
• CVE-2023-28263 Visual Studio Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Developer Community Highlights

• VS2022 17.5 no longer allows use of connection string from app.config when using Entity Framework update wizard
• iisexpress crashes in ntdll.dll
• The Show Compact View button is missing in the (old) New Object dialog
• Proprietary Visual Studio Extension forcing Save As dialog after upgrade from version 17.1 to 17.4
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