Software update: Visual Studio 2022 17.7.2

Microsoft has released version 17.7.2 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 17.7 is available this page from Microsoft. The changelog for version 17.7.2 looks like this:

Summary of What’s New in this Release of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.7.2

• Certain endpoint security and application control programs were inducing instability in Visual Studio. This has been addressed.
• Fixed crashes experienced by some users of the “Install WSL For Me” experience.
• Users who opened a folder containing a CMake project may have experienced an indefinite hang in Visual Studio. The race condition causing this hang has been identified and fixed.

Developer Community

• Remove Github actions from solution explorer
• Diagnostic Suppressors are not taken into account in the QuickInfo tooltip with VS 2022 17.7