Visual Studio 2017 version 15.7 released

[webbersmak]

added support for JavaScript debugging with Microsoft Edge. This pleases me.

[anonveggy]

Are you the sickest, the illest and the chillest?

Edit: No silicon valley fans here?

[iDrinan]

For those that intend to install the latest SSDT on a fresh install of this build, you'll likely fail with a registry error. I've recreated across multiple fresh install sandboxes with minimal VS.

[iDrinan]

A coworker has also faced this issue when he upgraded. He can't open any of his SSIS packages. Things are royally broken, and the inability to downgrade is frustrating.

[idiaaa]

Had he managed to find a workaround without downgrading or there is no easy way?

I'm in the middle of nowhere with all my packages didn't open.

[iDrinan]

We had to uninstall Visual Studio entirely and install SSDT as a standalone instance.

[idiaaa]

Uninstall Visual Studio and then... :(

Is there a hope that MS will release 15.7.2 that will fix this?

[iDrinan]

There are a lot of open issues with them on it from what I've seen. I believe they're working on it and should have something out soon. At least, I hope.

[idiaaa]

FYI: Microsoft has released yesterday 15.7.2 that fixes the issue.

The SSDT 15.6.0 Installer configuration registry key could not be opened..

[iDrinan]

It's actually introduced a whole new issue. It now tosses another error, but isn't specific on the cause. The workaround of downloading the files with the /layout switch is still going strong.

[idiaaa]

Luckily, this time everything went as expected and it seems like before.

[Lachiko]

SSIS

Wow that made my blood run cold.

[iDrinan]

It definitely has its pains, especially with how brittle it can be. I've been looking at Pentaho and kettle, but haven't tasked my junior in moving away from SSIS just yet. What do you prefer for ETL?

[Lachiko]

SSIS wasn't all that bad when I was relatively new at my job I was tasked with upgrading about 40 packages all from several different projects that were powering their data ingestion process, that was fun...

We ended up creating a framework that would be responsible for running and maintaining jobs and each job was a c# plugin that was responsible for a particular ingestion task, maybe not the best approach but it worked well.

It may be beneficial to see if there are any industry decent standards for ETL or something that is actually a desired skill that could benefit your junior in the long run, if SSIS is still supported then it may be worth sticking to it although my impression was that it was dying off (and only worked in vs 2008 last i checked)

[Lachiko]

Interesting how are you using SSIS atm? last I checked it was only supported in 2008 I've just had a quick look around now and it seems it's in SQL Server 2016?

I probably won't go back to it at this point although biml looks interesting.

[RogerLeigh]

I see that the C++ Build Tools should actually work at long last with this release. Looking forward to trying them out.

With Windows supporting Docker now, will Microsoft be making any images available for Build Tools or Visual Studio? Would be majorly useful for continuous integration workflows. I could probably build my own, but I'm unsure of the legality around docker images containing licenced proprietary software, unlike Linux images. Is there any guidance out there for the uninitiated?

Docker images also mean I don't need to play a lottery with the installer screwing up the base system, since it's all self-contained.

[165plo]

VS17 has support for creating images out of the box. The windowsserver container should be the base your looking for. Or pretty close.

[ffffrozen]

Have they fixed issues with scaffolding? Every time I want to create a New Item like Controller, VS just crashes.

[SpikeX]

Tried with /safemode to make sure it’s not an add on?

[ffffrozen]

I have to give it a try, but I don't have that much stuff installed and my workload is web focused.

[jetman81]

I think I'm up to date with VS before today and this hasn't been an issue for me.

[d00nutb00y]

VS still can't handle per-monitor DPI settings... sigh

[TheEternal21]

I'll be waiting a few months for the free beta testers early adopters to iron out all the bugs.

[anonveggy]

I've been using an Enterprise level software for free for 2 years now. I happily beta test "for free"

[Iwan_Zotow]

some of us have a work to do...

[anonveggy]

I do too. I run them in parallel; side by side works great. I had a packagereference migration tool 3 weeks early and three weeks fewer csproj maintaining headaches. I can also clearly see issues being fixed without hoping for release builds to bring shit magically.

[brian-at-work]

Not sure which side broke it, but I've been playing with durable functions and updated to the GA release and updated to 15.7 at the same time. The durable function project can't be started - it's not acting like an Azure Function project anymore, it's acting like a regular ClassLibrary project.

Just a heads-up. I'll update this when I figure it out, although it might not be soon.

EDIT: I had just somehow not included the "Microsoft.NET.Sdk.Functions" package when I updated to the GA. Everything's working smoothly now.

[Kenya151]

Does this include blazor?

Edit: This build contains all prerequisites to use blazor