This entry was posted in How to Fix and tagged Cannot open source file, match.h, stdio.h, The source file could not be found, VS2017 on by Robins. At the C++ project (example is “Fibonacci”), right-click the mouse to select “Properties” from the pop-up menu.Ģ>fter clicking “Properties”, the following dialog box will pop up, locate and click “General”, and select the Windows SDK version of this computer from the drop-down option of “Windows SDK version” (the default in the example project is 8.1, but 4.0 (my computer is Win10)). This usually occurs when the code for the project is downloaded from the Internet, or when the computer is reinstalled on a new system, etc., resulting in a computer system that is different from the Windows SDK that the project was built with, and many of the source files are not found in the default location (which has changed).ġ.

Additionally, sole-maintainer projects will. Error running solution in VS2017: “E1696 cannot open source file” stdio.h “ Any software project that has more than one developer maintaining source code files should absolutely use a VCS.

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