Where is WindowsSDK_IncludePath defined?

Question

The macro $(WindowsSDK_IncludePath) has the values shown in the picture.

I\'d like to know where those values are defined, they must be defined in some files.

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Answer 1

In my case, the WindowsSDK_IncludePath variable was correctly defined and in fact it worked perfectly in Visual Studio 2013. So I even uninstalled and reinstalled VS2015. Then I found thanks to this link that the preset macro variables can be modified by specific user settings. These user settings are stored in C:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\MSBuild\v4.0\Microsoft.Cpp.Win32.user.props which in my case read as follows:

  
  
  
  
    $(VC_IncludePath);$(WindowsSDK_IncludePath);C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeSynthesis XSD 4.0\include;
    $(VC_LibraryPath_x86);$(WindowsSDK_LibraryPath_x86);C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeSynthesis XSD 4.0\lib\vc-12.0;
    C:\Program Files (x86)\CodeSynthesis XSD 4.0\bin;$(VC_ExecutablePath_x86);$(WindowsSDK_ExecutablePath);$(VS_ExecutablePath);$(MSBuild_ExecutablePath);$(SystemRoot)\SysWow64;$(FxCopDir);$(PATH);
  
  
  

Somehow the sentence made it impossible for VS2015 to find the correct value. In my laptop computer where everything worked correctly, the file was basically empty:

After setting my file just like the one in my laptop, everything worked normally. Of course I lost the execution preference of CodeSynthesis XSD but right now I am not working on any project that use it. I will continue experimenting with different variants of this file.