The builds tools for v120 (Platform Toolset = 'v120') cannot be found

Question

Using visual studio 2012 on windows 8 x64 aparantly this is caused by msbuild being moved into .net but I havn\'t seen how to fix it yet.

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Answer 1

Wasted 4+ hours on this.

I have Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise, one of the projects has below error:

The builds tools for v120 (Platform Toolset = 'v120') cannot be found

To resolve above error, I tried to install all below:

• Microsoft Build Tools 2013 (v120 tools) https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=40760
• Microsoft Build Tools 2015 https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=48159
• Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/downloads/#build-tools-for-visual-studio-2017

However, none of the above worked.

Later, installed Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate, then all worked fine.

Looks like, the older Visual studio is a must to resolve this.

Hope it helps.