Let's go directly to the newest version.. Here is a preview:https://www.visualstudio.com/de/vs/visual-studio-2017-rc/
VC2017 is propably released when we get Measurement Studio 2017.. (Hopefully 2017.. ;-))
Can I suggest it's time NI add some utility to work out which merge modules are needed. I can often spend a lot of time trying to deploy NI projects.