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Wednesday, February 27, 2019 2:45 AM
I created new project in VS 2017 using windows desktop wizard by not changing any default. There should be stdafx.h and targetver.h in the head file in VS 2013 right? But why there's no such files in VS 2017? How can I add these two files in my project?
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019 5:48 AM | 1 vote
Hi,
Welcome to MSDN forum.
Start from visual studio 2017 15.3, in order to make the templates more user-friendly and intuitive, we made the following changes:
- The Win32 category has been renamed to Windows Desktop, and continues to contain the Win32 project templates.
- The Win32 Console Application template has been renamed to Windows Console Application and no longer shows a wizard when creating a project.
- The Win32 Project template has been renamed to Windows Desktop Application and it no longer displays a wizard.
So, please use windows desktop application template and there will be stdafx.h and targetver.h in the head file.
If you do want to go through a wizard and configure your project from the get-go, you can choose the new Windows Desktop Wizard template:
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/cppblog/changes-to-project-templates-and-code-wizards-in-15-3/
Best regards,
Joyce
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019 10:53 AM | 1 vote
There is no requirement for a precompiled header to be part of the project template, and there is no requirement for it to be called stdafx.h. Some of the newer templates have called it precompiled.h or pch.h.
The targetver.h header file just included sdkddkver.h but it wasn't really required. This is pulled in automatically through Windows.h, so it isn't needed. If you wanted to target a version of Windows different to the Windows SDK, you could just #define _WIN32_WINNT and NTDDI_VERSION.
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Wednesday, February 27, 2019 11:57 AM | 1 vote
Visual Studio 2017 15.9.7 at least generates pch.h instead of stdafx.h when you create a console application. This is true if you use the Windows Console Application template or select Console Application as the application type using the Windows Desktop Wizard.
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