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

I ran into the exact same problem but I Installed Windows SDK 7.1 instead (or the web installer version) and that made it work also.

I remember I've installed it also to the original computer.

Remember you should uninstall first any version of Visual C++ 2010 redistributable, otherwise Windows SDK setup will fail.

I know it's not the perfect solution because Windows SDK is huge, but it's another option.