Software update: Visual Studio 2022 17.6.4

Microsoft has released version 17.6.4 of Visual Studio 2022, a version with extended support. 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 17.6 is available this page from Microsoft. The changelog for version 17.6.4 looks like this:

What’s New in this Release

• Fixed an issue where Saving a C++ file sometimes results in the IDE hanging.
• Fixed an issue when “Show All Files” mode is set for a VC project sometimes results from files in those projects will be missing in GoTo and FindInFiles.
• Fixed ‘__declspec(property) causes syntax errors with C++20 and /clr
• Fixed a race condition in ASAN initialization causing crashes on start up
• When multiple test projects are run in sequence, vstest.console can consume a lot of CPU because it is constantly polling for data from testhost that is started but not executing yet. This was mitigated by disabling testhost pre-start. This regression was introduced in 17.6.0.
• Fixes a MessagingRemoteException when an XCFramework is involved in MAUI targeting iOS. Ref xamarin/macios#18308.
• This version of Visual Studio includes Win App SDK 1.3.230502000. See Windows App SDK release channels – Windows appsfor more details.
• Includes servicing update 10.0.22621.1778 for Windows SDK for Windows 11. See Windows SDK for details.
• Fixed a bug where document tabs could accidentally undock into a floating window.
• Fixes some Visual Studio crashes on Solution Close.

Developer Community Highlights

• Internal compiler error compiling Xbox Series
• Find in Files is broken and returning partial results
• C++/CLR syntax error in VS 17.6.0 when compiling templated class with finalizer with C++20 support
• Compiler crashes for analysis of code including specialization of class template with nested non-template class referring to containing class
• Visual Studio 2022 always crash while selecting MS-Access as a data source
• TextTransform utility (TextTransform.exe) command line handling regression error in VS2022 17.6 LTSC
• Duplicate key strokes when editing javascript in cshtml file
• Experimental function “Sticky scroll” not selects items by cursor position