Does anyone actually use this program? It's a real pain.
But anyway, I need to add some locations to my include and library paths. You can do this for each project, but I would like to do it in a way that applies to every project. You would think that you could Google this issue and follow some instructions, but apparently everyone else has some magical version of VS2010 that has these things that mine simply does not, so no instructions that I have been able to find can actually be followed.
Anyway, there exists a file, Users/(username)/AppData/Local/Microsoft/MSBuild/v4.0/Microsoft.Cpp.Win32.users.props, and this is an XML file that can be edited and will allegedly apply to all projects. There is a node
<IncludePath>
which I suppose actually sets the include path, but this is the only node that is there, and I can't find any information on how to edit the file otherwise. For example, is library path just
<LibraryPath>
? Also, in the project properties window in VS2010 itself, there is VC++ Directories, where you can add library, include directories, etc., and there is also "Additional Include Directories" under C/C++ -> General. What's the difference between adding "Additional Include Directories" and simply appending "Include Directories" under VC++ Directories?
Will this file automatically apply to new projects, or is there something you have to set up?
Also, isn't adding your own header files like, kind of a very standard thing to do in C++? I'm not a programmer, but from the little I've done it seems like something you basically always want to do. Why is it such a challenge?