I want to know how long it has been since Visual Studio forces you to use the secure versions of scanf(), because I was able to use it without an error (only warning) a few months ago in Visual Studio 2012. Has it been strictly deprecated in a recent update? If so, which one? Also, is there a way to turn errors while using scanf() into warnings for any and all projects through a setting?
Some of my old projects that were created (on Update 1, I think) STILL compile fine with the use of scanf(), but new ones always give errors. Why is this?