Quality and Reliability

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This release contains the following quality and reliability improvements.

CLR

Updated Japanese dates that are formatted for the first year in an era and for which the format pattern uses “y年”. The format of the year together with the symbol “元” is supported instead of using year number 1. Also, formatting day numbers that include “元” is supported. [646179]
Updated Venezuela currency information, this change affected the culture of “es-VE” in the following ways. [616146]
1) currency symbol changed to “Bs.S”
2) English currency name is changed to “Bolívar Soberano”
3) Native Currency name is changed to “bolívar soberano”
4) Intl Currency Code changed to “VES”
Addressed a situation where the System.Security.Cryptography.Algorithms reference was not correctly loaded on .NET Framework 4.7.1 after the 7B/8B patch. [673870]

WF

In some .NET Remoting scenarios, when using TransactionScopeAsyncFlowOption.Enabled, it was possible to have Transaction.Current reset to null after a remoting call. [669153]

Winforms

Addressed an issue where application created numerous Windows Forms textboxes to a flowLayoutPanel, with only a few calls to comctl32.dll. [638365]

WPF

Addressed a race condition involving temporary files and some anti-virus scanners. This was causing crashes with the message “The process cannot access the file “. [638468]
Addressed a crash due to TaskCanceledException that can occur during shutdown of some WPF apps. Apps that continue to do work involving weak events or data binding after Application.Run() returns are known to be vulnerable to this crash. [655427]

Note: Additional information on these improvements is not available. The VSTS bug number provided with each improvement is a unique ID that you can give Microsoft Customer Support, include in StackOverflow comments or use in web searches.

Getting the Update

The Security and Quality Rollup is available via Windows Update, Windows Server Update Services, and Microsoft Update Catalog.

Microsoft Update Catalog

You can get the update via the Microsoft Update Catalog. For Windows 10, .NET Framework updates are part of the Windows 10 Monthly Rollup.

The following table is for Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016+ versions.

Product Version	Preview of Quality Rollup KB
Windows 10 1709 (Fall Creators Update)	Catalog 4462932
.NET Framework 3.5, 4.7.1, 4.7.2	4462932
Windows 10 1703 (Creators Update)	Catalog 4462939
.NET Framework 3.5, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2	4462939
Windows 10 1607 (Anniversary Update)	Catalog 4462930
.NET Framework 3.5, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.2	4462930

The following table is for earlier Windows and Windows Server versions.

Product Version	Preview of Quality Rollup KB
Windows 8.1 Windows RT 8.1 Windows Server 2012 R2	Catalog 4462502
.NET Framework 3.5	4459935
.NET Framework 4.5.2	4459943
.NET Framework 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.1, 4.7.2	4459941
Windows Server 2012	Catalog 4462501
.NET Framework 3.5	4459932
.NET Framework 4.5.2	4459944
.NET Framework 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.1, 4.7.2	4459940
Windows 7 Windows Server 2008 R2	Catalog 4462500
.NET Framework 3.5.1	4459934
.NET Framework 4.5.2	4459945
.NET Framework 4.6, 4.6.1, 4.6.2, 4.7, 4.7.1, 4.7.1, 4.7.2	4459942
Windows Server 2008	Catalog 4462503
.NET Framework 2.0, 3.0	4459933
.NET Framework 4.5.2	4459945
.NET Framework 4.6	4459942

Previous Monthly Rollups

The last few .NET Framework Monthly updates are listed below for your convenience:

Last year at Build, we launched Visual Studio for Mac, our native macOS IDE for developers building cloud, web, and mobile applications using .NET. Updates have been rolling out at a steady pace ever since, and we’re excited to announce the release of Visual Studio for Mac version 7.5. We have also continued to bring more Visual Studio 2017 code to the Mac.

Our mission has always been to delight developers, and we have something for everyone in this release. You can get started by downloading the new release or updating your existing install to the latest build in the Stable channel.

Here are some of the features we’re most excited to share with you:

ASP.NET Core developers now have full Razor editor support. We’ve also introduced JavaScript and TypeScript support.
For iOS developers, we added WiFi debugging support for iOS and tvOS applications. We also improved the iOS provisioning system.
Android developers will enjoy the new Android SDK manager built right into the IDE, as well as a device manager to keep track of all your devices and emulators
Xamarin.Forms developers will enjoy an improved XAML editing experience
Cloud developers have support for Azure Functions development using .NET Core.
We support .NET Core 2.1 RC and C# 7.2.
Code-styling rules can be configured per-project using .editorconfig files.
A preview of Team Foundation Version Control support for Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services is now available.

We’re also shipping improvements to performance and stability, accessibility, and multi-language support, along with fixes for a number of bugs reported by our vibrant developer community. You can find the full list of changes in our release notes.

ASP.NET Core development with Razor, JavaScript, and TypeScript Editor Support

We partnered with the Roslyn and Visual Studio JavaScript tooling teams to reuse Razor, JavaScript, and TypeScript editor source code, bringing the editing experiences you know and love from Visual Studio 2017 to the Mac.

Official Razor support includes IntelliSense and syntax highlighting in .cshtml files

Our JavaScript editor has been rewritten to provide the core editor experience you expect, including IntelliSense, enhanced colorization, and brace completion. We’ve also added TypeScript editing support, which shares the same IntelliSense and colorization as our JavaScript experience.

Use .editorconfig files to Set Code Style Rules in Projects

One of my favorite features is finally here: .editorconfig

Visual Studio for Mac will now format your code following the conventions specified in the .editorconfig file. This will allow you to set your coding style, preferences, and warnings for your project; making it simpler for code that you contribute to other projects to follow the practices of those projects.

Xamarin.Forms Development

We now ship Xamarin.Forms templates that take a

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