Stephan T. Lavavej

Hmm, I see that you're using VS 2022 17.10.5, but we require the latest Preview (as mentioned in the README). I'm not sure if that's the root cause, though. In...

> I don't like using preview versions of the IDE as often they are buggy. You can use the production IDE, but we really do need to require the preview...

Yeah, you've definitely found a real problem there. I'm looking into that CMakeLists.txt now, thanks! :smiley_cat:

Created #4888. Now back to actual work :joy_cat:

I'm mirroring this to the MSVC-internal repo - please notify me if any further changes are pushed.

Thanks for fixing this long-standing bug and making this code so much more robust! :tada: :smile_cat: :rocket:

Given that replacing `17` with `16` in that short-link results in downloading the VS 2015-2019 VCRedist instead of the VS 2015-2022 VCRedist, I think it's safe to say that we...

Citation, please? (Not that it affects the decision.)

Thanks, good to know. This doesn't affect our removal decision - we're not going to go out there and smash a bunch of servers with hammers, it's just that programmer-users...

I am going to be quite greedy/aggressive/daring in increasing the minimum required version to Win10. I don't think I can get away with anything more, and "Win10 is the minimum"...