Targeting 25 years of Windows with Visual Studio 2019

O ur method to build software compatible down to Windows 2000 using Visual Studio 2017 served us well for several months. And trust me, I had really hoped that Windows 2000 would be as low as we ever had to go. But the world of industrial…

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O ur method to build software compatible down to Windows 2000 using Visual Studio 2017 served us well for several months. And trust me, I had really hoped that Windows 2000 would be as low as we ever had to go.

But the world of industrial manufacturing surprises you every day. So at some point, we inevitably stumbled upon industrial control systems that were still running Windows NT 4.0 from 1996. And they needed our software.

Before you want to close the tab now, because you think that this is just an ordinary sequel to my previous blog post, be assured: It’s not. We’re going to use a wholly different approach to build software that also runs on Windows NT 4.0, without any compromises. And we’ll end up with what’s probably the most modern way to compile C++ code in Visual Studio.

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