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Visual Studio 2017 can't find windows.h

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Hell'o I've just installed Visual Studio 2017 (enterprise).I opened my project whom I created in Visual Studio 2015. My project uses windows.h library but VS2017 cannot find this library. How to repair this?

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Marcin Klima Avatar asked Apr 14 '17 11:04

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My solution was :

  • Open the project properties
  • Into General --> SDK Version
  • I just picked the 10.0.15063.0 version instead of 8.1

And it worked.

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ImFonky Avatar answered Oct 14 '22 19:10

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I solved this issue by re-running the Visual Studio Installer and selecting the "Modify" button. Once presented with the Workloads screen I clicked on the "Individual Components" tab and selected all of the latest "Windows 10 SDK" Checkboxes(version 10.0.15063.0). My guess is that the entry for "Desktop C++ x86 and x64" is the one the actually fixes it but it is only speculation because none of those options were checked when I ran the installer and as you can see I checked all of them.

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James Pack Avatar answered Oct 14 '22 18:10

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