Specified platform toolset (v110) is not installed

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I have a solution initially created using VS2010. When I opened it using VS 2012, it asked me to do some conversion, which I agreed. Now I'm using VS 2010 to open the solution again, and when I tried to build it gave an error:

error MSB8008: Specified platform toolset (v110) is not installed or invalid. Please make sure that a supported PlatformToolset value is selected

How can I fix it? For example, is there a way to change the platform toolset to v100 again?

Best Answer

Yes indeed it is:

Right Click project
Select Properties
Select Configuration Properties
General
Platform Toolset

When you get to Platform Toolset, click on the v110 value which will be in the right column. You will see a drop down appear which will allow you to select v90, v100, or inherit. Of course, v100 is the correct answer. Once v100 is selected, I don't believe you can back to v110 from within VS 2010. You would have to once again open in in VS 2012 to move it back to v110.

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I ran into the same problem as well with the full release of VS 2012. You can also set the VisualStudioVersion as a property with MSBuild as opposed to dealing with environment variables as mentioned in the accepted answer. For instance:

C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\MSBuild.exe .\myproject.vcxproj /p:VisualStudioVersion=11.0

The environment variables approach I'm sure work just as well, I honestly didn't try that as I was trying to stay away from having to modify the environment variables.

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This MSDN thread explains how to fix it.

To summarize:

Either disable incremental linking, by going to

Project Properties 
   -> Configuration Properties 
       -> Linker (General) 
          -> Enable Incremental Linking -> "No (/INCREMENTAL:NO)"

or install VS2010 SP1.

Edits (@CraigRinger): Note that installing VS 2010 SP1 will remove the 64-bit compilers. You need to install the VS 2010 SP1 compiler pack to get them back.

This affects Microsoft Windows SDK 7.1 for Windows 7 and .NET 4.0 as well as Visual Studio 2010.

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