Visual Studio 2012 failing to detect Visual Studio 2008 build tools

Question

I am trying to use Visual Studio 2012 to build a C++ CLI application targeting .NET 3.5.

I\'ve already gotten this working on one machine, by installing Visual Studi

Answer 1

It turns out that you ALSO have to install Visual Studio 2010.

Once I installed Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012 was able to detect the Visual Studio 2008 build tools.

It seems absolutely crazy, but there you go.