Visual Studio 2010 not autolinking static libraries from projects that are dependencies as it should be supposed to

Question

• Create a new solution with a C++ console command-line project
• Create a new project, a C++ static library
• Make the command-line project depend on the

Answer 1

For MSVC 14 (2015 version) right-click on the project, then "Add->Reference..." and check all the needed dependencies.

Yes, it has changed somewhere between 2010 and 2015 versions. Fun!

And if you are looking to link a project that has resources in it - you need to specify the .res file directly in the list of linker input dependencies (project's properties dialog box) as it doesn't get picked up by the above configuration.

UPDATE

Still the same (new) behavior in MSVC 2017