I have a Visual Studio C ++ console application that I created using Visual Studio 2015, and now I can not compile it (with Visual Studio 2017) because it targets the Windows 8.1 SDK, which is not installed. The problem is that I cannot redirect the project in the Windows 10 SDK.
What happens when I open the project properties page and go to the General - Target Platform, I see the Windows 10 SDK in the drop-down list, and I can select it ... but as soon as I click Apply, it returns to 8.1 on its own . There is no error message.
The Visual Studio installer says that the specified version of the SDK is actually installed:
So what is going on here? Is there a way to reconfigure my project without installing the Windows 8.1 SDK?
Not sure if this is important: this project is really just a “wrapper” around an existing bare project consisting of just a few .cpp and .h files that were developed by another person. I am really not familiar with C ++ development.
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