Microsoft heeft versie 15.8.5 van Visual Studio 2017 uitgebracht. Deze populaire programmeerontwikkelomgeving beschikt over handige opties om het programmeren in onder andere Visual C++, Visual Basic, C#, F#, Python, en R makkelijker te maken. De hele waslijst veranderingen van de 2017-uitgave kun je nalezen in de bijbehorende releasenotes. De wijzigingen van deze uitgave zien er als volgt uit:
Summary of What's New in 15.8.5Top Issues Fixed in 15.8.5
- Visual Studio Tools for Xamarin now supports Xcode 10.
 
These are the customer-reported issues addressed in 15.8.5:
- Debugger tooltip does not expand in Xamarin.iOS debugging session.
 - Debugger won't let me leave execution point (Android).
 - After updating to 15.8.1, data tip does not show when debugging.
 - Debugger data tip does not expand [Editor].
 - Exception:MSB0001: Internal MSBuild Error: Already registered for build-time.
 - Wrong path to resource in manifest for ClickOnce after upgrading to VS 15.8.1.
 - ClickOnce Manifest error in 15.8.
 - ClickOnce Publish is missing certain references.
 - ClickOnce: Language file copied to wrong location.
 - Reference missing in the ClickOnce publish folder.
 - Compiling non-.NET SDK style F# projects results in an internal MSBuild error unless MSBuild parallelism is set to 1.
 - F# is not NGEN'd in Visual Studio.
 - F# deploys the FSharp.Core 4.5.0.0 binary in the 4.4.3.0 location.