Another new update (version 15.6.4) for Visual Studio 2017 is now available

Early this week, Microsoft released an update (version: 15.6.3) of Visual Studio 2017 with a list of fixes. The team has now released one more update to it, incrementing the version number to: 15.6.4. This new update contains a set of new fixes, reported by the customers.

Before upgrading to this build, you may want to know what has been changed/fixed. Continue reading more to know about the changes.

Assets File 'c:\xxxxxx\obj\project.assets.json' doesn't have a target for '.NETStandard,Version=v2.0'.
Visual Studio 2017 fails to persist settings on first launch if there is another Visual Studio instance running from another user.
Android LLVM libc++ static library STL broken with Visual Studio 2017 (version 15.6.0).
Unit tests no longer sorted alphabetically.
Test explorer tests grouped by class, namespace no longer sorted alphabetically in 15.6.2.

To grab the latest update, open your Visual Studio 2017 IDE and check for the update notification. Alternatively, you can launch the Visual Studio 2017 Installer to download the latest bits.

About the Author

Solution Architect & Former Microsoft MVP

Kunal Chowdhury is an enterprise solution architect and former multi-year Microsoft MVP. He is the author of three technical books: Windows Presentation Foundation Development Cookbook, Mastering Visual Studio 2017, and the Mastering Visual Studio 2019.

He publishes technical articles on Kunal-Chowdhury.com.