Before, the tools would use whatever latest version was on your machine, regardless of whether it is stable. For stable releases of Visual Studio, the latest stable release of an SDK will be used by default. In version 15.9, we made a change to how. NET Core SDKs has been a bit confusing in the past. Have a look at the gif below to see this feature in action, and remember that you can read more about how it works on the Visual C++ Team Blog. To use the C++ step back feature, you’ll need the Enterprise edition of Visual Studio and the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (1607) or later. Better yet, the diagnostic tools window contains a list of all the states that you can jump to – just double click on your desired event in the diagnostic tools window. It also makes it easy to compare the state of your application at two different points. Step Back saves you from having to restart your debug session just to check what state your app was in a few lines above. With IntelliTrace events and snapshots enabled in Tools>Options>IntelliTrace, every step (in, out, over) you take has a corresponding “step backwards” command to get back to the state of the app at a previous step.

We first talked about this feature back in October for C# in this blog post and now we’re adding it for C++. Visual Studio works with the runtime and operating system to take snapshots of a running application’s stack, enabling you to hit a breakpoint and then to step backwards and forwards, with full access to the call stack, variables, and watch windows.

Step back debugging is a type of historical debugging. Let’s look at a couple of the standout scenarios in this update that you can now try. You can find the complete list of all the changes in the release notes and view the issues you submitted that are fixed on Developer Community. If you prefer to try these updates without installing, you can create a Visual Studio image on Azure. You can also download from to get the latest release of Visual Studio.

The easiest way to update is directly from within Visual Studio 2017 by selecting Help>Check for Updates or select “Update” from the Visual Studio Installer.

Today, we are releasing Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9.

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