Filing this ticket to consider migrating the various vcxproj files, props files, etc. from VS2017 to VS2019.
This would be needed to address the static init order issues on VS2017 :
https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/ICU-21075
(closed) PR
Also related (C++14):
https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/ICU-21107
From discussion in the ICU-TC call on 2020-05-20, plan is to upgrade to VS2019 in the ICU 68 timeframe.
This would involve updating the project files, updating the build bots, and also changing the pre-built binaries to VS2019 as well.