Switching VS2010 to use Windows 7.1 SDK

Question

I\'ve used VS2008 on my development machine for some years now, with windows SDK v7.1.

I\'ve installed VS2010, and it\'s using the Windows SDK v7.0a, but I need it t

Answer 1

For all those using Visual Studio Command Prompt I mention you have to modify VCVarsQueryRegistry.bat file (it's being called (indirectly) by %VSINSTALLDIR%\VC\vcvarsall.bat) which is placed in %VSINSTALLDIR%\Common7\Tools folder (typicaly C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Tools) by modifying line 26 from

@for /F "tokens=1,2*" %%i in ('reg query "%1\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A" /v "InstallationFolder"') DO (

to

@for /F "tokens=1,2*" %%i in ('reg query "%1\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1" /v "InstallationFolder"') DO (

I wish someone from Microsoft explained why WindowsSdkVer.exe doesn't work for VS 2010...