Yes, it's a new front-end.
The biggest problem was to find a replacement for my familiar Blue theme which was missing.
Then I chose Cool Breeze and after a while it was familiar.
Otherwise working smoothly and pleasantly so far.
Regarding the toolchain: Since I have discovered the $(DefaultPlatformToolset) macro some years ago, I didn't need to care about the actual toolset version. Find it also in above sample project to make it independent of the Visual Studio/Toolset version:
<PlatformToolset>$(DefaultPlatformToolset)</PlatformToolset>
And similarly:
<WindowsTargetPlatformVersion>$(SDKVersion)</WindowsTargetPlatformVersion>
Regards
Guido