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Solved.
In Project Configurations -> Linker -> System -> SubSystem -> Windows (/SUBSYSTEM:WINDOWS).
Previously it was set as Console (/SUBSYSTEM:CONSOLE)
The link to SO https://stackoverflow.com/a/60693124/11566024

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