E2498: Need previously defined struct GUID (C++)

This happens when you use the __uuidof operator without including a header that defines the GUID struct. So the following program code would display this error:

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class __declspec(uuid("19a76fe0-7494-11d0-8816-00a0c903b83c")) foo{};
int main()
{
    __uuidof(foo);
    return 0;
}

And you would fix it as follows:

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#include <windows.h>    // Will pull in struct GUID
class __declspec(uuid("19a76fe0-7494-11d0-8816-00a0c903b83c")) foo{};
int main()
{
    __uuidof(foo);
    return 0;
}

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