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Thank you. I seem to have completely missed all the VC blog posts about the bincompat decision with regard to Visual Studio "15"/2017.

Glad to know that the VC100 to VC140 overhaul that I completed only very recently can still be considered fully up to date with the latest and greatest :).

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Yeah, it makes migrating a codebase with third-party libraries built with older toolsets easier. Note that you'll need to build with VS 2017 if you want header-only improvements like the vector overhaul, and you'll need to update to 2017's VCRedist if you want DLL improvements (e.g. if you're still on 2015 RTM's msvcp DLL, you don't have the iostreams correctness/performance fix that shipped in 2015 Update 2; DLL improvements are uncommon but they do happen).

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