Hi,
The SOFTDEVICE_PRESENT is defined in the project and the option to include the soft device is also chosen when creating the project. I think there is a bug in VisualGDB and how it generates a project.
I tried compiling the same example in nRF SDK v13 (installed separately) using command line and it just compiled without any errors or warning.
I am currently running VisualGDB in trial mode. If it cannot even generate and build a sample program, then is it worth buying??