Visual Studio 2019 shipped with the Windows 10 SDK, providing access to the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) and Win32 APIs. It simplified the selection of the Windows SDK version, allowing projects to retarget to specific SDK versions easily via the project properties context menu. This ensured backward compatibility with Windows 7 while enabling development for the latest Windows 10/11 builds.
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: One of the biggest leaps in VS 2019 was the native, high-performance support for CMake. Developers no longer need to generate .sln or .vcxproj files manually; you can open a folder containing a CMakeLists.txt and start coding immediately. microsoft visual 2019 c++
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