Software update: Visual Studio 2022 17.7.3

Microsoft has released version 17.7.3 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 17.7.3 looks like this:

Summary of What’s New in this Release of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.7.3

• Added support to list simulators and devices with Xcode 15 and removed the NewsstandKit hard link dependency.
• Fixed an issue preventing the Visual Studio Installer from running when there is a symlink in the installer path.
• The new Include Cleanup feature for C++ which was added in 17.7 has been causing crashes for users, so we have disabled it for now, with a view to re-enable in 17.8

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