Visual Studio 2017 is a great step forward for developer productivity.
.NET Core is the biggest change in .NET since .NET 1.1, giving developers better performance, cross platform development, cross platform deployment and open sourced. See how .NET Core has evolved from the first preview releases to the RTM version.
To see what got fixed in VS 2017 and what did not, watch:
https://tv.ssw.com/6969/whats-new-in-visual-studio-2017-vs-code
Plenty more to watch at:
https://tv.ssw.com/tag/visual-studio-2017