Cumulative Servicing Update for Visual Studio Tools for Universal Windows Apps v1.2

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Summary

This article describes a hotfix for an issue that's caused by a bug in Visual Studio Tools for Universal Windows Apps v1.2, which is installed with Visual Studio 2015 Update 1.

Symptoms

After you install Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 and recompile a C++ Universal Windows Platform (UWP) application, the UWP application crashes if there are two XAML files whose file names are the same length. For example: MainPage1.xaml and MainPage2.xaml.

Resolution

To resolve this issue, install this update for Visual Studio Tools for Universal Windows Platform Apps v1.2.

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Prerequisites

To apply this update, you must have Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 installed.

Restart requirement

You should not experience a restart after you install this update.

Applies to

  • Visual Studio Community Edition 2015

  • Visual Studio Enterprise 2015

  • Visual Studio Express 2015 for Windows 10

  • Visual Studio Professional 2015