Visual Studio 2019 16.9 brings memory error detection, C++ capabilities

Microsoft has reached two milestones with its signature Visual Studio IDE, making Visual Studio 2019 16.9 available as a production release and unveiling a preview of a planned Visual Studio 2019 16.10.  

Both were published on March 2. Visual Studio 2019 16.9 can be accessed here while the version 16.10 preview is available here. Visual Studio 2019 16.9 features general availability of Address Sanitizer (ASan) fast memory error detection, for finding runtime memory issues. With the production release, Microsoft Visual C++ now can work out which runtime libraries are needed to use ASan with a project.

Also for C++, Visual Studio 2019 16.9 implements the More constexpr containers proposal, allowing destructors and new expressions to be constexpr. And C++ IntelliSense has been improved. Other new features and improvements in Visual Studio 2019 16.9:

Visual Studio 2019 16.9 is the fourth supported servicing baseline for Visual Studio 2019. Enterprises and Professional users are advised to standardize on this version. It will be supported with fixes and security updates for one year after the release of the next servicing baseline. With the release of version 16.9, version 16.7, the last servicing baseline, will be supported until April 2022. Versions 16.0 to 16.3, 16.5, 16.6, and 16.8 are no longer supported.

In Visual Studio 16.10 Preview 1, Microsoft has introduced the following features, enhancements, and productivity improvements: