Visual Studio Headers and Libraries

At work I've been trying to update the headers and libraries
(H&L) that Visual Studio is compiled with. I am replacing the
H&Ls from Vista with Windows 2008. So far this project has been
giving me hell. We started off planning 3 weeks (1 sprint) for the
large, mostly known changes. And then another 3 weeks for test to work
on it while I'm in the background fixing anything that comes up.

Well, Murphy strikes again. Problems with the source enlistment and
me getting sick have caused us to be behind schedule by about a week.
Also because this was a rush job I never did a full stack build before
any changes to make sure the enlistment was setup correctly. Guess what
I'm doing now? Take it from me, always, even on rush jobs; make sure
your projects build before you start working on them.

As it is now, every change I make ends up exposing 10 other errors.
And I'm not certain that the changes made for last version change are
even correct. Some of the comments in the code don't exactly inspire
confidence. Hopefully I can make some great progress today and not put
us farther behind.