Visual Studio 2017 saw its third Release Candidate become available last week, overcoming a minor stumble as the first attempt had some difficulties with the installer. With those issue corrected, it is now worth reviewing what has been provided with this batch of changes. (The desired build is 26127, released on January 27.)
The key areas that RC3 focuses on are NET. Core and ASP. NET Core support, Team Explorer, and bug fixes related to the Visual Studio installer. Based on comments made by Microsoft’s John Montgomery, VS2017 should be nearing production release as a couple of workloads have been removed from RC3 due to insufficient time to complete localization. While the Data Science and Python Development workloads will not be available at release, F# support will remain in VS2017 via the.
