Reduce pain points with Visual Studio

Reduce pain points with Visual Studio

There are plenty of hoops to jump through before you can build
and debug using Visual Studio. Even more if you then want to
contribute any changes back.

This pain can be alleviated by providing a single project file
(suitable for Visual Studio 2010 upwards), removing the use of
make in the build process and bypassing the version info mechanism.

Maintainability over different versions is aided by the code being
in a single project file with most properties being controlled by
external property sheets.

Signed-off-by: johnstevenson <john-stevenson@blueyonder.co.uk>