Node packages not building on Windows 8.1 - Missing Microsoft.Cpp.Default.props

Question

NPM packages are not building on Windows 8.1 - failing with following error,

error MSB4019: The imported project \"C:\\Microsoft.Cpp.Default.props\" was not fo

Answer 1

Setting the following fixed the problem for me

/property:VCTargetsPath="C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V120

As mentioned on this forum