Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7.0 Minor Release is now available for download

Microsoft releases Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7.0 minor release update to all the editions of Visual Studio 2017 with many new features and enhancements. The new update also includes C# 7.3, TypeScript 2.8 and Windows 10 April 2018 Update SDK - Build 17134 update.

Check for update notification or launch the Visual Studio Installer to get the updates. Continue reading to know about the new features and enhancements.

Download latest version of Visual Studio 2017

Visual Studio 2017 is the latest version of Visual Studio IDE, and comes in three different editions. The different editions of Visual Studio 2017 are: Visual Studio Community 2017, Visual Studio Professional 2017 and Visual Studio Enterprise 2017.

What's new and improved in Visual Studio 2017?

• Microsoft added support to change installation locations.
• You can Save All your pending changes before you start your update.
• The update dialog provides you even more details about your update during installation.
• C# 7.3 is included in Visual Studio version 15.7.
• Microsoft improved solution load time for C# and VB projects.
• Microsoft made numerous updates to F# and its tools, with a focus on performance.
• Microsoft reduced the time to enable IntelliSense for large .NET Core projects by 25%.
• Microsoft made Quick Info improvements and new .NET refactorings like convert for-to-foreach and make private fields readonly.
• Microsoft added the ability to publish ASP.NET Core applications to App Service Linux without containers.
• Live Unit Testing works with embedded pdbs and supports projects that use reference assemblies.
• The Test Explorer has more responsive icons during test runs.
• C++ developers can use CodeLens for unit testing.
• Microsoft added new rules enforcing items from the C++ Core Guidelines.
• Debugging large solutions with /Debug:fastlink PDBs is more robust.
• CMake integration supports CMake 3.11 and static analysis.
• Python projects support type hints in IntelliSense, and a Run MyPy command has been added to look for typing errors in your code.
• Conda environments are supported in Python projects.
• Microsoft added a next version of our Python debugger based on the popular open source pydevd debugger.
• TypeScript 2.8 is included in Visual Studio version 15.7.
• Microsoft improved Kestrel HTTPs support during debugging.
• Microsoft added support for JavaScript debugging with Microsoft Edge.
• The Debugger supports VSTS and GitHub Authentication for Source Link.
• IntelliTrace’s step-back debugging feature is supported for debugging .NET Core projects.
• Microsoft added IntelliTrace support for taking snapshots on exceptions.
• Microsoft removed the blocking modal dialog from branch checkouts in Git when a solution or project reload is not required.
• There is an option to choose betMicrosoften OpenSSL and SChannel in Git.
• You can create and associate Azure Key Vaults from within the Visual Studio IDE.
• Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin can automatically install missing Android API levels required by Xamarin.Android projects.
• The Xamarin.Forms XAML editor provides IntelliSense and quick fixes for conditional XAML.
• Microsoft added support for Azure, UWP, and additional project types in Visual Studio Build Tools.
• You can create build servers without installing all of Visual Studio.
• The Windows 10 April 2018 Update SDK - Build 17134 is the default required SDK for the Universal Windows Platform development workload.
• Microsoft added support for Visual State Management for all UWP apps and more.
• Microsoft enabled automatic updates for sideloaded APPX packages.
• You have new tools for migrating to NuGet PackageReference.
• Microsoft added support for NuGet package signatures.
• Microsoft added Service Fabric Tooling for the 6.2 Service Fabric release.
• Microsoft updated Entity Framework Tools to work with the EF 6.2 runtime and to improve reverse engineering of existing databases.

Top issues fixed in Visual Studio 2017 v15.7

• MFC Class Wizard can't add control member variables.
• Test Explorer intermittently never finishes finding tests.
• Internal compiler error in VS15.5.
• Visual Studio Build Tools is missing MSBuild Web SDKs.
• VS2017 deployed Git doesn't support self-signed certs.
• Visual Studio hangs during NuGet package update.
• Visual Studio Installer shows "unsupported command" after update.
• Visual Studio installation hangs at "Waiting for Microsoft.VisualStudio.Graphics.EnableTools".
• XAML designer doesn't recognize Visual State, throws "Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (10.0; Build 16299)" error.
• The automatic formatting in Razor (cshtml) breaks on paste.
• No diagnostic on invalid member initialization since MSVC 14.12.
• Static resource defined in ThemeDictionaries not fetched while edit a copied template for custom control.
• Add New File -> Online Template "baseName empty string" generates Non-Fatal Error.
• Microsoft.Alm.Shared.Remoting.RemoteContainer.dll generates high CPU usage.
• Razor cshtml helper format is not done incorrectly.

Source: Visual Studio 2017 Release Notes