MFC does not support WINVER less than 0x0501

Question

I have a C++ project that references many other projects/libraries. This is for an application that was created many years ago. About every once a year it is updated and a new v

Answer 1

I got the same error, on Windows 7 with Visual Studio 2013.

In my case my project had a source file with name stdafx.h, inside that file there was

#ifndef _WIN32_WINNT
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0500
#endif

I changed it to

#ifndef _WIN32_WINNT
#define _WIN32_WINNT 0x601
#endif

and the error disappeared.