Preprocessor Definitions : What is ?

Question

_{Friday, August 28, 2015 7:46 PM}

Hi,

My QA tean created several solutions, one for each of our test.  I don't know exactly what they did but I suspect they created the first solution and the subsequent ones were created by copying settings of the first one over.  Anyhow, now I notice that in the <Preprocessor Definitions> field of my solution, there is this value "<different options>";  When I compared what is displayed in the <Processor Definitions> field between the VS property pages->Preprocessor->Preprocessors Definitions what that from the .vcxproj I found some differences

property pages->Preprocessor->Preprocessors Definitions:

_MY_DEFINITION_;WIN32;<different options>

.vcxproj

_MY_DEFINITION_;WIN32;_DEBUG;_CONSOLE;_LIB;_UNEXPECTED_DEF_FROM_ANOTHER_SOLUTION_

so look like the <different options> in the VS property page is mapped to whatever after the "WIN32" in the .vcxproj file.  My question is how can I get the <different options> to be explicitly displayed in VS property pages window for viewing and editing?

All replies (3)

_{Tuesday, September 1, 2015 7:36 AM ✅Answered | 4 votes}

I think that “<different options>” is displayed when you select “All Configurations” or “All Platforms” in dropdowns. In this case, some of the options are different, depending on configurations and platforms. The common values, such as _WIN32, are displayed directly. The values that are not common appears as “<different options>”. In order to see the actual values, select a single configuration and a single platform in dropdowns.

_{Monday, August 31, 2015 7:00 AM}

Hi ddhkpdx,

Thanks for your post.

This forum is used to discuss and ask questions about the Test tools in Visual Studio including web performance, load testing and of course the hot new Coded UI testing. Your issue seems to be more related with Visual Studio, I will move this thread to the more related forum.

Reference: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home?forum=visualstudiogeneral

Thanks for your understanding.

Best Regards,

Edward

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_{Tuesday, September 1, 2015 7:09 AM}

Hi ddhkpdx,

In the default VC++ test projects, I didn't get the option "<different options>" under .xxproj file. Please check the property for your projects. As far as I know, it has the settings for Preprocessor Definitions.

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hhzbb5c8.aspx?f=255&MSPPError=-2147217396

Maybe your team members add certain customer options there.

Best Regards,

Jack

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