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Ultimate Studio 2019 Q2 is released

This release brings enhancement and bugfixes to all components.

Changes in Visual Studio 2019

The Microsoft VS team has changed several things in the new Visual Studio 2019. Here are some of the changes we see in this version:

• Registry value for VS 16 is not written in key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\VisualStudio\SxS\VS7. We used to read this key to determine the path of visual studio programs.
• Toolbox installation no longer accepts VSIX v1. It now shows an error message when installing a VSIX extension v1. Only V2 and V3 are accepted now.
• Variable $(MSBuildVersion) in MSBuild is no longer a version number. It is currently set to Current, causing a lot of headache to the VS community.
• Its help viewer reuses the HelpViewer v2.3 which is also used in VS 2017. So when we integrate a help cab file to HelpViewer 2.3, both versions of the Visual Studio show the same help content.

It took us several days to apply the workaround for these breaking changes in VS 2019 to our Ultimate Studio package installer. It now includes support for VS 2019 and .NET 4.8.

Changes in Google Chrome

Since May 2019, Google Chrome browser always shows a warning message stating that "This type of file can harm your computer." when you click on a link to download the software from our site.

This is a false positive alert. Our build system scans all the software packages before uploading to make sure they are clean. It looks like the Browser always show that warning when a user tries to download an executable file. You can turn off that warning by following the steps below:

• Open Chrome.
• Click on the 3-dot menu in the top right corner and open Settings.
• Search for 'Downloads' and toggle on ”Ask where to save each file before downloading” and close the settings form.

Here are the complete changes of our Ultimate Studio 2019 Q2