Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 Preview 5 released

released Oct 24th, 2023

Summary of What's New in this Release of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 Preview 5​

• Fixed an issue that may cause the following error to be reported when using .NET MAUI projects:MSB4057 The target "UpdateGeneratedFiles" does not exist in the project.
• Fixed an issue in Open Folder Solution Explorer whereby the right-click "Add Debug Configuration" command would fail to add the selected configuration.
• Fixed an issue that could result in an "Object reference not set to an instance of an object" error when publishing an Android app to the Google Play Store.
• Fixed empty hot reload dialog when partially applying changes without a debugger attached.

Developer Community Highlights

• C++ compiler diagnostics (notes) are missing from Error List when using MultiToolTask
• Hot reload completely broken for Blazor in VS Preview 17.8 preview 3
• The calling thread cannot access this object because a different thread owns it." on git source control output
• XAML Intellisense stopped working after 17.7

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Visual Studio 2022 Preview Release Notes

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