VCTargetsPath is wrong when building with MSBuild on build server

Question

In my C++ project, Test.wcxproj, I have the following configurations defined:

Answer 1

In my case, my build definition was configured to build my .sln file instead of my .proj file. I remember configuring it to build the MSBuild project, but somehow it seems to have reverted to the Solution.

Anyway, I found two solutions to the problem:

1. Make sure to build the .proj file (where the tools version is indeed set to 12.0).
2. Explicitly set the VCTargetsPath.