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

By default WINVER is defined as 0x0500 in preprocessor. To overcome from this error, remove defined win version "WINVER=0x0500" from Configuration Properties => c/c++ => Preprocessor tab and rebuild.

Or you can provide higher WIN VERSION as #define _WIN32_WINNT 0x601 in your code wherever you getting error.