This week we released Visual Studio 2017 version 15.8. Our 15.8 update brings the following improvements for web developers:

• Custom docker image tags during Publish
• Zip push deployment for Azure Functions
• Managing Azure Functions application settings
• Enabling Application Insights as part of publishing to Azure App Service
• Managing user secrets in ASP.NET Framework projects (targeting .NET 4.7.1 or higher) work projects
• Optimizing build performance for solutions containing ASP.NET Frame
• Author and source information for ASP.NET Core templates