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small tutorial on how to add proper tags to vcxproj files to enable vcpkg
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While vcpkg works without any problem and any modification for the default triplet (x86-windows), if you need to use vcpkg libraries in your project targeting different triplets a small manual tag addition is required.

Open the project' .vcxproj file and find this section:

  <PropertyGroup Label="Globals">
        ....
  </PropertyGroup>

Inside this section, please add these tags (at the end of the PropertyGroup is perfect), depending on the choosen triplet:

x86-windows-static

        <VcpkgTriplet>x86-windows-static</VcpkgTriplet>
        <VcpkgEnabled>true</VcpkgEnabled>

x64-windows

        <VcpkgTriplet>x64-windows</VcpkgTriplet>
        <VcpkgEnabled>true</VcpkgEnabled>

x64-windows-static

        <VcpkgTriplet>x64-windows-static</VcpkgTriplet>
        <VcpkgEnabled>true</VcpkgEnabled>
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