Is the Visual Studio Community 2017 version 15.7.6 better than 15.7.5?

It was noticed while using Visual Studio 2017 Version 15.7.5 that C# templates were not found in their usual local in the New Project... window. This absence was raised in one of the Forums post and it was triaged by the Forum monitor.

Please review the following posts regarding this issue:

http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2018/07/why-are-c-templates-missing-in-visual.html

http://hodentekhelp.blogspot.com/2018/07/why-are-c-templates-missing-in-visual_31.html

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/301590/c-templates-are-mssing.html

As far as the unavailability of C# templates 15.7.6 is no better than its earlier version.

Since the version 15.7.5  did not work for C#, it was decided to try the next version, 15.7.6. This was available and it was installed  using the Visual Studio Community 2017 version 15.7.5.

Although C# templates were not found in their usual location they were available in the Other Languages node as shown.

A Blank App (UWP) project was created as shown.

An unhandled exception was thrown as seen above. The build process came up with some warnings but no errors.

The Deploy in Build menu item did not throw any errors and was deployed. There is a corresponding shortcut to the app in the All Programs.

However trying to run the app on the LocalMachine came up with this message.

The version 15.7.6 has the same problem as the 15.7.5 or something very nearly the same problem.