I figured out as much as that NDEBUG is creating problems somehow and that I need to either enable or disable it. Some people did that successfully, but I don’t seem to find the correct place though 
Would I do that in makepanda.py or do I have to do that somewhere in the project file?
Sorry for the nagging, but I’d be really happy to stay with VS2010 and not having to go back to VS2008 