Microsoft has placed one of the last nails in the Visual Studio 6.0 coffin with this move. I guess it’s been this way for about a year or more, I found out the hard way today at work after bumping up from the February 2003 SDK to the Windows 2003 R2 SDK and getting this from the linker:
htmlhelp.lib(init.obj) : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol ___security_cookie
I don’t use Visual Studio 6.0 for my personal compiler, but at work our massive app will take some work before it’s typesafe enough for anything more recent. So I guess we’d better get working on that…
Just for fun, here’s a batch of grumblings from some crusty old 6.0 coders – if it ain’t broke why fix it? :>
http://blogs.msdn.com/aprilr/archive/2005/02/18/376494.aspx
And here’s a comment on slashdot suggesting Microsoft is likely very intentional with these kinds of moves (I completely agree):
http://developers.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=163570&cid=13661740
I got bit in the ass by this, too. Thankfully I had an old copy of the Platform SDK lying around to fall back on.
I am facing the same issue, i would appreciate if you can share SDK with me.. I have been searching all around(websites), but find it really difficult to get..
Wow, I can’t find it either any more, Yogesh. I’ll keep my eye out…