missing header file on a new installation of visual studio 2012

Question

I just installed visual studio 2012 and tried running my C++ project on it. compilation fails due to missing \"SDKDDKVer.h\", \"windows.h\", etc.

I installed the win

Answer 1

The same problem also exists when you upgrade a VS2010 project to VS2012.

To me, manually fixing the include dirs (see step 1 in previous answer) took care of the problem.