Windows 10: System infected with trojan horse Skeeyah.I through Visual Studio 2017 Community version...

Jethro1955 · Mar 22, 2019

My system was infected with the "Skeeyah.I" trojan horse while updating to the newest version of Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition. This would be edition 15.9.9. Everything was fine, and my system was operating properly until the update. After the update it was a different story. The system slowed down, became "laggy", and difficult to use. I immediately disconnected from the internet, and performed a virus scan. This was the results:

I checked the digital signature of the file, and everything was fine. The fact that the system was so adversely affected tells me that this was not a "false positive." I uninstalled Visual Studio 2017 Community Edition, did a complete system scan, and everything came up clean. My system is now operating properly.

Has anyone else have/had this situation? I want to reinstall the IDE, because I have items that I'm working on, but I can't risk being infected again.

:)

Brink · Mar 22, 2019

Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 now available

Today, we are releasing Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9. The easiest way to update is directly from within Visual Studio 2017 by selecting Help>Check for Updates or select “Update” from the Visual Studio Installer. You can also download from the Visual Studio website to get the latest release of Visual Studio. If you prefer to try these updates without installing, you can create a Visual Studio image on Azure. You can find the complete list of all the changes in the release notes and view the issues you submitted that are fixed on Developer Community.

Let’s look at a couple of the standout scenarios in this update that you can now try.

Step Back for C++

Step back debugging is a type of historical debugging. Visual Studio works with the runtime and operating system to take snapshots of a running application’s stack, enabling you to hit a breakpoint and then to step backwards and forwards, with full access to the call stack, variables, and watch windows. We first talked about this feature back in October for C# in this blog post and now we’re adding it for C++.

With IntelliTrace events and snapshots enabled in Tools>Options>IntelliTrace, every step (in, out, over) you take has a corresponding “step backwards” command to get back to the state of the app at a previous step. Step Back saves you from having to restart your debug session just to check what state your app was in a few lines above. It also makes it easy to compare the state of your application at two different points. Better yet, the diagnostic tools window contains a list of all the states that you can jump to – just double click on your desired event in the diagnostic tools window.

To use the C++ step back feature, you’ll need the Enterprise edition of Visual Studio and the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (1607) or later.

Have a look at the gif below to see this feature in action, and remember that you can read more about how it works on the Visual C++ Team Blog.

.NET Core tooling updates

The way Visual Studio exposes the .NET Core SDKs has been a bit confusing in the past. In version 15.9, we made a change to how .NET Core tools will use the .NET Core SDK. For stable releases of Visual Studio, the latest stable release of an SDK will be used by default. Before, the tools would use whatever latest version was on your machine, regardless of whether it is stable. This change will make use of .NET Core within Visual Studio more predictable. Read more on the .NET Blog.

Visual Studio installation configuration

Configuring Visual Studio setup and replicating that setup configuration on many computers has been too complex. In version 15.9 (with any product: Community, Professional, or Enterprise), we made it easy to save a Visual Studio installation configuration and use it to populate another. In the Visual Studio Installer, export the workload and component selection to a .vsconfig file. You can use this file to copy your installation configuration across multiple machines or share with others on your team. If you are importing to an existing installation, it will add new workloads and components, and will not replace the existing ones.

Tools for Universal Windows Platform Developers

We have made a lot of improvements for developers building Universal Windows Platform applications. The key ones are: support for the Windows 10 October 2018 Update (build 17763) SDK, the ability to build .msix installation packages in Visual Studio using the normal packaging tools for UWPs, support for ARM64, and performance and reliability improvements (particularly improvements to F5 performance and XAML designer reliability).

Also, when using the XAML Designer for building UWP applications targeting the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update (Build 16299) or later, developers can now specify control display options. You can choose to have the designer display all controls, including custom user controls, or have the designer-only display platform controls. Only displaying platform controls may improve the stability of the designer and will render fallback controls represented by a yellow border.

Support for SharePoint 2019

With SharePoint 2019 now generally available, we added templates for it. These templates allow you to create new projects that are empty, that contain a visual web part, or that are based on an existing SharePoint 2019 solution package. You can also migrate existing SharePoint projects from either SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint 2016 to SharePoint 2019. To do so, you can just open an existing SharePoint 2013 or SharePoint 2016 project in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 and you will see a dialog that gives you the option to upgrade the project type.

Please note that SharePoint 2019 support is only available in Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9. To upgrade your tooling, we recommend that you install the Office workload when upgrading to the latest version of Visual Studio.

Stay Connected

A final note: version 15.9 is the final minor update to Visual Studio 2017. We’ll still ship a few service updates (e.g. 15.9.1), and 15.9.x will become the Visual Studio 2017 servicing baseline and will be the supported version of Visual Studio 2017 starting January 14, 2020. You can read more from our blog post, Visual Studio 2017 and Visual Studio for Mac Support Updates.

As always, we love to hear about your experiences with Visual Studio. Please install Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 and let us know any issues you have via the Report a Problem tool in Visual Studio. You can also track your issues in Visual Studio Developer Community, as well as suggest a feature, ask questions, and find answers. Please engage with us and other Visual Studio developers through our Gitter community (requires GitHub account) or get free installation help through Live Chat Support.

John Montgomery,
Director of Program Management for Visual Studio
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Source: Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 now available | The Visual Studio Blog

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Brink · Mar 22, 2019

Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.3 Preview

We recently released the third Preview of Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3 and we would love to get your feedback! We’ve been working hard to polish up some features, address some of the issues you’ve reported, and make meaningful improvements in the product’s fundamentals such as reliability, performance, and accessibility. For details of all the goodness contained in this Preview, check out the Visual Studio 2017 version 15.3 Preview Release Notes. A few of the notable highlights include:

Continuous Delivery Tools can now automatically build and deploy NET or ASP.NET Core projects to Azure Web App Services. This means that developers can create and configure a CI Build Definition and a Release Definition for their solution on Visual Studio Team Services without leaving the Visual Studio IDE.

Increased visibility on extensions’ impact on Visual Studio reliability. Visual Studio has a rich ecosystem of tools and extensions that provide useful functionality to developers. But sometimes, extensions’ interactions with Visual Studio can have bugs. We already provide some diagnostics via an infobar that lets you know if an extension is slowing things down. Now, the diagnostic system has been extended to let you know if an extension may have been involved if ever VS terminates unexpectedly.

Lightweight solution load (LSL) has been extended to large C++ solutions, which means that these types of projects will load faster.

If you’re not familiar with Visual Studio Previews, please take a moment to read the brief Visual Studio 2017 Release Rhythm. Remember that Visual Studio 2017 Previews install side by side with released bits, so they should not impact your machine. Previews provide an opportunity for you to receive fixes faster and to try out upcoming functionality before it becomes mainstream. Similarly, the Previews enable the Visual Studio Engineering team to validate usage and detect flaws earlier in the development process. This means that we are highly attuned to feedback coming in through the Previews. It’s a virtuous win-win cycle.

Install the Visual Studio 2017 Preview today, exercise your favorite piece of functionality, and tell us what you think. You can log bugs via Report a Problem in the IDE or share a suggestion on UserVoice. You can track the bugs you log on the developer community portal.

Christine Ruana,
Principal Program Manager, Visual Studio
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Source: Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.3 Preview | The Visual Studio Blog

Brink · Mar 22, 2019

Visual Studio 2017 is Now Available

Visual Studio 2017 is here! Celebrate 20 years of Visual Studio with fellow developers in your area, join us on Twitter, and download Visual Studio 2017 now. Don’t forget to sign up for tomorrow’s full day of free training at Microsoft Virtual Academy on Wednesday, March 8.

We are happy to announce the release of Visual Studio 2017. This release brings a new lightweight and modular installation experience which can be tailored to your needs.

Use Visual Studio 2017 to develop apps for Android, iOS, Windows, web, and cloud. Code fast, debug and diagnose with ease, test often, and release with confidence. You can also extend and customize Visual Studio by building your own extensions. Use version control, be agile, and collaborate efficiently with this new release!

Download: Visual Studio Enterprise 2017

Download page: What's New in Visual Studio 2017 | Product Updates and News - Visual Studio

To learn more about other related downloads, see the Downloads page. Also, see Visual Studio 2017 System Requirements and Visual Studio 2017 Platform Targeting and Compatibility.

Feedback

We’d love to hear from you! For problems, let us know via the Report a Problem option in the upper right corner, either from the installer or the Visual Studio IDE itself. Track your feedback on the Developer Community portal. For suggestions, let us know through UserVoice.

Release History

March 7, 2017

Known Issues

Refer to the Known Issues section.

To learn more about issues addressed in this release, please visit out Developer Community Portal.
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Read more:

https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/n...s2017-relnotes

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vis...lity-and-more/

https://blogs.windows.com/buildingap...lopment-needs/

See also: Visual Studio 2019 Launch Event - Visual Studio

Videos: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Vis...io-2017-Launch

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