Error MSB8008: Installed platform toolkit (v120) is not installed or is invalid

Question

I downloaded a C ++ project. I opened the .sln file and I tried to create a project. I got the following error:

error MSB8008: Specified platform toolset (v120) is not installed or invalid. Please make sure that a supported PlatformToolset value is selected.

I have already verified that the platform toolkit is installed on v120 . What is the problem?

Answer 1

Either change the platform toolkit of your project to v100 (as you installed VS2010), or install VS2013 to use v120 .