Remove confusing C++/WinRT command line behavior#505
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In C++/WinRT 1.0, there was a subtle - and it turns out rather confusing - command line behavior where the component name (used to derive generated component file names) was itself derived from the first
-inputargument and only if the-nameoption was not also specified. This is confusing as the winmd name is not guaranteed to match the namespace name and particularly so when you consider that the file system is not case sensitive but C++ is.This behavior has now been removed and replaced with a warning to help diagnose any build failures. For example:
Fixes #309