Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2019 16.9 Preview 3, an update to the company’s signature integrated development environment that offers more command line tools for C++ development as well as enhancements tuned to .NET and XAML. The previous update to Visual Studio 2019, version 16.8, added support for the C11 and C17 versions of C.
Preview 3 was released January 20. Among the new C++ command line tools, the preview lets developers target the LLVM version of the OpenMP runtime with the command line switch, /openmp:llvm. This feature includes added support for the lastprivate clause on #pragma omp sections and unsigned index variables in parallel for loops.
