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

A quick note for people who installed:

1. Visual Studio 2012 (Express)

2. MSBuild 2012

with the issue of:

1. MSBuild loads Microsoft.Cpp.Default.props

2. MSBuild cannot load Microsoft.Cpp.props

The solution is here: set parameter of MSBuild: /property:VCTargetsPath="C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V110"