Great! Tested it and no problems. Glad to have helped. I see the imports to the msvcr lib are totally removed now. That makes things a lot easier.

I took a look on the newer VS, when switching between Release and Debug via the pull down menu (under Preferences window of the main cpp or exe project) the preprocessor definition toggles from _DEBUG and NDEBUG. MS really makes you look for all these settings. I remember finding them easier in Borland CBuilder...
Again - Thanks for keeping it updated.