[cmake-developers] [CMake 0015670]: Add support for setting "Windows target platform version" in VS2015

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15670 
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Reported By:                Christian Maaser
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   15670
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2015-07-29 18:34 EDT
Last Modified:              2015-07-29 18:34 EDT
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Summary:                    Add support for setting "Windows target platform
version" in VS2015
Description: 
The MSVS generator currently does not support setting a new property introduced
with MSVS2015: The "Windows target platform version". This property effectively
selects the platform SDK to use, which is independent from the selected
compiler/platform toolset.

Steps to Reproduce: 
Use "Visual Studio 14 2015 [Win64]" generator and see how
<WindowsTargetPlatformVersion> tag is missing in the generated .vcxproj files

Additional Information: 
See attached screenshot showing the new setting.

Here is a subset from a regular .vcxproj file which selects the recently
released Windows 10 platform SDK version.
...
    <CharacterSet>MultiByte</CharacterSet>
    <PlatformToolset>v140</PlatformToolset>
    <WindowsTargetPlatformVersion>10.0.10240.0</WindowsTargetPlatformVersion>
  </PropertyGroup>
...
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2015-07-29 18:34 Christian MaaserNew Issue                                    
2015-07-29 18:34 Christian MaaserFile Added: targetplatformversion.png          
         
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