While converting projects from VS 2008 to VS 2010 -- some "WIN..." definitions need tweaking

Question

I just spent a couple of hours converting 75 VS 2008 projs to VS 2010 [Professional]. All went well except for a number of very pesky definitions in stdafx.h. Here are the ones I ended up with that worked. I have no clue as to the long term implications of these changes. I assume when VS 2012 comes out, we'll need yet another re-tweak. Has anyone else experienced this, or am  I the only VS 2010 user to-date with this problem???

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charles.leggette

Answer 1

oops here they are....

#ifndef WINVER // Allow use of features specific to Windows 95 and Windows NT 4 or later.

#define WINVER 0x0500 // Change this to the appropriate value to target Windows 98 and Windows 2000 or later.

#endif

 

#ifndef _WIN32_WINNT // Allow use of features specific to Windows NT 4 or later.

#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0501 // Change this to the appropriate value to target Windows 98 and Windows 2000 or later.

#endif

 

#ifndef _WIN32_WINDOWS // Allow use of features specific to Windows 98 or later.

#define _WIN32_WINDOWS 0x0410 // Change this to the appropriate value to target Windows Me or later.

#endif

 

#ifndef _WIN32_IE // Allow use of features specific to IE 4.0 or later.

#define _WIN32_IE 0x0550 // Change this to the appropriate value to target IE 5.0 or later.

#endif

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charles.leggette

Answer 2

This is not caused by VC upgrade but rather a Windows SDK upgrade. Support for Windows 2000 and pre-XP SP2 versions are dropped. It looks like you are still targeting Windows 98 and IE 5.5?

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Answer 3

No, I'm targeting XP,Vista,Win7 ....can you give me what they should be based on that target...thank you.

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charles.leggette

Answer 4

change WINVER, _WIN32_WINNT and _WIN32_WINDOWS to 0x0501, and change _WIN32_IE to 0x0600

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Answer 5

Hi,

  I also have the same issue as your's ,can you tell me how did you convert all the VS2008 solutions to VS2010? I am trying to build Vs2008 solutions and I have 110 of them, and my builds fail because of this solution conversion problem or this WINVER, _WIN32_WINNT and _WIN32_WINDOWS to 0x0501, and change _WIN32_IE to 0x0600 problem.

Please guide me.