Fixing A VS2017 15.6 Installation Problem

After installing the latest Visual Studio 2017 15.6.6 (Community Edition), I found my custom setting of environment variables INCLUDE lost effect in the Developer Command Prompt. Strangely, LIB was still there. Some tracing indicated that it was a bug in the .BAT files Microsoft provided to initialize the environment. The offending lines are the following (in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\Tools\vsdevcmd\core\winsdk.bat; one of them is very long and requires scrolling for viewing):

@REM the folowing are architecture neutral
set __tmpwinsdk_include=
if "%INCLUDE%" NEQ "" set "__tmp_include=;%INCLUDE%"
set "INCLUDE=%WindowsSdkDir%include\%WindowsSDKVersion%shared;%WindowsSdkDir%include\%WindowsSDKVersion%um;%WindowsSdkDir%include\%WindowsSDKVersion%winrt;%WindowsSdkDir%include\%WindowsSDKVersion%cppwinrt%__tmpwinsdk_include%"
set __tmpwinsdk_include=

Apparently somebody missed renaming __tmp_include to __tmpwinsdk_include. Doing that myself fixed the problem.

I’ve reported the problem to Microsoft. In the meanwhile, you know how to fix it if you encounter the same problem.