When properties screwed up

When Properties got screwed up in Visual Studio 2005/2008, in the cmd, type "devenv /resetskippkgs".
It will get you the default properties (color, font etc) for your editor. 

unresolved external symbol

unresolved external symbol __imp___CrtDbgReportW:

1. When u get this error, go to visual studio project settings -> C/C++ ->
Code Generation -> RunTime Library has the "debug" enabled (ex: Multi Threaded Debug DLL).
If not enabled, enable it and rebuild again.

2. Also check if Linker->Debugging->Generate Debug Info is on or not

Mentioning Library path for .lib (s)

If you have dependency on some .libs, you cannot specify this path of .libs in "Include" path of your project. In order to specify the path, you need to specify the path of .libs in "Linker" as shown, in "Additional Library Directories" of General Category.