Visual Studio 2017 15.9 Releases
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Visual Studio 2017 15.9 was released.
Changelog
New Features in 15.9
- Install – made it easier to keep your installation settings consistent across multiple installations of Visual Studio. You can now use the Visual Studio Installer to export a .vsconfig file for a given instance of Visual Studio. This file will contain information about what workloads and components you have installed. You can then import this file to add these workload and component selections to another installation of Visual Studio.
Debugging – added support for consuming the new portable-pdb based symbol package format
C++
- We’ve added the “step back” feature in the debugger for C++ in the Visual Studio Enterprise Edition. Step back enables you to go back in time to view the state of your application at a previous point in time.
- C++ IntelliSense now responds to changes in the remote environment for both CMake and MSBuild projects targeting Linux. As you install new libraries or change your CMake projects, C++ IntelliSense will automatically parse the new headers files on the remote machine for a complete and seamless C++ editing experience.
- We’ve updated the UWP Desktop Bridge framework packages to match the latest in the Windows Store for all supported architectures, including ARM64.
- In addition to fixing 60 blocking bugs, we have added support for the range-v3 library with the MSVC 15.9 compiler, available under /std:c++17 /permissive-.
- The retail VCLibs framework package in Visual Studio has been updated to match the latest available version in the UWP Store.
- Full support is now available for ARM64 C++ Native Desktop scenarios, including VC++ 2017 Redistributable.
- We implemented the shortest round-trip decimal overloads of floating-point to_chars() in C++17’s charconv header. For scientific notation, it is approximately 10x as fast as sprintf_s() “%.8e” for floats, and 30x as fast as sprintf_s() “%.16e” for doubles. This uses Ulf Adams’ new algorithm, Ryu.
- A list of improvements to the standards conformance of the Visual C++ compiler, which potentially require source changes in strict conformance mode, can be found here.
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