how to fix visual studio vulnerabilities

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how to fix visual studio vulnerabilities

Tate, Corey (CCL) 0

Michael Taylor 60,161 Reputation points

2024-03-13T15:43:33.0166667+00:00

This is insufficient information. Please provide more details about what vulnerabilities you're talking about, what version of VS you're referring to and any contextual information that might explain what you're trying to do.
Tate, Corey (CCL) 0 Reputation points

2024-03-13T16:28:50.8566667+00:00

I have multiple versions of .NET and Visual Studio. From what I see from Microsoft each version of those applications have a different update/patch for vulnerabilities. My question is there a script that identifies the application version and then executes the related update/patch for the vulnerability.
Tate, Corey (CCL) 0 Reputation points

2024-03-13T17:03:10.0466667+00:00

In my environment, I have multiple versions of .NET and Visual Studio. What I found from Microsoft there are different updates/patches for each version of .NET and Visual Studio. I was wondering if there was a script that identifies each version on a device and executes the corresponding update/patch for that version of .NET and/or Visual Studio.

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Michael Taylor 60,161 Reputation points

2024-03-13T15:43:33.0166667+00:00

This is insufficient information. Please provide more details about what vulnerabilities you're talking about, what version of VS you're referring to and any contextual information that might explain what you're trying to do.
Tate, Corey (CCL) 0 Reputation points

2024-03-13T16:28:50.8566667+00:00

I have multiple versions of .NET and Visual Studio. From what I see from Microsoft each version of those applications have a different update/patch for vulnerabilities. My question is there a script that identifies the application version and then executes the related update/patch for the vulnerability.
Tate, Corey (CCL) 0 Reputation points

2024-03-13T17:03:10.0466667+00:00

In my environment, I have multiple versions of .NET and Visual Studio. What I found from Microsoft there are different updates/patches for each version of .NET and Visual Studio. I was wondering if there was a script that identifies each version on a device and executes the corresponding update/patch for that version of .NET and/or Visual Studio.

Answer 1

Hello @Tate, Corey (CCL),

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

Some new features/tools were added into newer version of Visual Studio and make the behavior of updating VS different.

Are you using VS 2017, VS 2019 and VS 2022, or VS 2015, VS 2013 or older versions?

For VS 2017, VS 2019 and VS 2022, I think you can consider using command updateall.

Related blog: Update all Visual Studio installations with a single click! and document: Install, Update, Modify, Repair, Uninstall, and Export commands and command-line parameters

updateall, Updates all of the installed products in sequential order. Works with --quiet and --passive parameters.

It can be used like => "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\setup.exe" updateall --quiet. The command will firstly check if the installed Visual Studio can be updated, if VS can be updated, then it will execute to update VS.

Best Regards,

Tianyu

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Tianyu Sun-MSFT 34,441 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff

2024-03-20T04:53:55.0433333+00:00

Hello @Tate, Corey (CCL),

We have not heard from you for a couple of days.

Did you try the command updateall? Do you have any further concerns?

Please feel free to contact us.

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Bruce (SqlWork.com) 77,686 Volunteer Moderator

for visual studio itself, you run visual studio installer and run updates. for the .net runtimes you run windows update. for the nuget packages you use, you run nuget solution manger and update the nuget package versions.

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