MSB4044: The "ValidateNTTargetVersion" task was not given a value for the required parameter

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Hi,
after moving from Windows10/VS2019+WDK10 to Windows 11/VS2022+WDK11 (on a clean machine) my simple WinUSB .inf stamping/signing/.cat creation .vcxproj now surprises me with:
MSB4044: The “ValidateNTTargetVersion” task was not given a value for the required parameter

While this sounds like a little poem, no context is given, nor can’t be requested by any of the verbose options. ValidateNTTargetVersion appears on some googled pages but nothing that hints to the issue I am facing.

Would you happen to have an idea what to look for or check or try?

Thanks a lot,
Hagen.

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Let me find the right people for this

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What is the WDK version on your new system, also can you please verify you have the matching SDK version installed as well.

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Thanks prashantchahar,
Both SDK and WDK are current latest (Windows 11 SDK/WDK 10.0.22621.0). - now while I look at it looks strange! Windows 11 SDK/WDK both have a 10. version number?!

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The marketing version number (“Windows 11”) is almost always different from the resource version number. Windows 7 reported as 6.1.7600. Windows 8 was 6.2.9200, Windows 8.1 was 6.3.9200.

They happened to bump to 10.0.10240 for Windows 10, but that’s the only time since about 1996 that they matched up.

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