I have been building my primary application with FWH / Harbour / MSVC 2013, then MSVC 2015 for several years. I believe the Microsoft builds of Harbour are all MSVC 2015. I received mine from Antonio, but I believe the one on the download site is the same. Antonio can clarify this.
Last week I installed MSVC 2017 Community on my Surface Book. I then had it clean, and rebuild my ( very large ) application using the 2015 solution. I let it upgrade the solution, including all the reference pointers, which it did automatically. It then built the full .exe without any problems and the program seems to run fine.
I have not put it on my main computer because I have not had the time to fully test the build on my laptop. I will update this thread after I have a chance to complete testing.
Apparently there are many enhancements in Community 2017. The Microsoft plan is to allow many ways of assembling applications within VS using the programmers languages of choice. So far my clients have been pleased with the results of the current builds.
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