Can't build in visual studio 2015 because 'Microsoft.Build.Tasks.v14.0.dll' cannot be found

Question

When attempting to build in visual studio 2015, the following file is missing? This project was previously being built in VS2013.

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Answer 1

What helped me with Visual Studio 2017 is to copy Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Core.dll and rename it to Microsoft.Build.Tasks.v15.0.dll