Summary of What's New in this Release of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.7 Preview 4

• Fixes "Waiting for debugger" message on emulator when trying to debug .NET MAUI Android apps.
• Fixing an issue with symbol loading when debugging MAUI projects.

Developer Community Highlights

• TestExplorer unable to run GoogleTest tests since the "support" of namespaces in VS 17.6 preview 3
• Blank Solution project template missing
• Pylance language server isn't starting in VS due to a "Node.js was not found" error.
• diagsession fails to load with Specified part does not exist in the package. (0x80131509)
• Not running compatible code on the thread in Android MAUI
• Xamarin.android not working, debug mode
• .NET MAUI Android app: "Waiting for Debugger"
• Unable to deploy Azure Functions app
• MAUI Android .NET 8 Crash

Starting with Visual Studio 17.7 Preview 3, you can now enable a preview of our modernized Extension Manager that highlights extension details and helps you more easily discover the extensions you’ll love.

New Features feat(insights): enable insights by default COMPASS-7000

Bug Fixes fix: use value from the evt.target to fix index creation COMPASS-6981 fix(compass): cap number of log files to 100 MONGOSH-1449 fix(compass-components): case sensitive index key badges COMPASS-6510 fix(compass-query-bar): map project to projection before emitting open-explain-plan event COMPASS-6995 fix(compass-components): use mod for hotkey so windows uses ctrl instead of windows key COMPASS-6777 fix(explain-compat): handle missing execution stats in raw explain

FEATURES:

New Data Source: azurerm_communication_service (#22426)

ENHANCEMENTS:

dependencies: updating to v0.20230712.1084117 of github.com/hashicorp/go-azure-sdk (#22491)
dependencies: updating to v0.20230703.1101016 of github.com/tombuildsstuff/kermit (#22390)
provider: the Resource Providers Microsoft.Kubernetes and Microsoft.KubernetesConfiguration are now automatically registered (#22463)
automation/dscconfiguration - updating to API Version 2022-08-08 (#22403)
azurestackhcl - updating to API Version 2023-03-01 (#22411)
batch - updating to use API Version 2023-05-01 (#22412)
datafactory - moving azurerm_data_factory and azurerm_data_factory_managed_private_endpoint over to hashicorp/go-azure-sdk (#22409)
elastic - updating to API Version 2023-06-01 (#22451)
kusto - updating to API Version 2023-05-02 [GH-22410
managedapplications - migrate to hashicorp/go-azure-sdk (#21571)
privatedns: updating to API Version 2020-06-01 (#22470)
storage - updating to Data Plane API Version 2020-08-04 (#22405)
network - application_security_group and private_endpoint now use hashicorp/go-azure-sdk (#22396)
voiceservices: updating to use API Version 2023-04-03 (#22469)
Data Source: azurerm_kubernetes_cluster - add support for the internal_ingress_gateway_enabled and external_ingress_gateway_enabled properties (#22393)
azurerm_batch_account - support for the network_profile block (#22356)
azurerm_container_app - the min_replicas and max_replicas propertiesnow support a maximum value of 300 (#22511)
azurerm_dns_zone - can now use the host_name property with dns_zone for soa_record creation (#22312)
azurerm_kubernetes_cluster - add support for the internal_ingress_gateway_enabled and external_ingress_gateway_enabled properties (#22393)
azurerm_site_recovery_vmware_replication_policy_association - update validation to correctly handle case (#22443)

BUG FIXES:

azurerm_automation_dsc_configuration - fixing an issue where content_embedded couldn't be deserialized (#22403)
azurerm_data_factory_dataset_cosmosdb_sqlapi - fix incorrect type/error message during read (#22438)
azurerm_data_factory_dataset_mysql - fix incorrect type/error message during read (#22438)
azurerm_data_factory_dataset_postgresql - fix incorrect type/error message during read (#22438)
azurerm_logic_app_workflow - prevent crash when access_control is empty block (#22486)
azurerm_vpn_server_configuration - prevent a potential panic when setting deprecated variables (#22437)

1.5.3 (July 12, 2023) BUG FIXES:

core: Terraform could fail to evaluate module outputs when they are used in a provider configuration during a destroy operation (#33462)

backend/consul: When failing to save state, consul CAS failed with transaction errors no longer shows an error instance memory address, but an actual error message. (#33108)

plan renderer: Fixes crash when rendering the plan if a relevant attribute contains an integer index specified as a string. (#33475)

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