How to change the default path for Visual Studio 2008?

Question

I had the beta version of Visual Studio 2010 installed and I left. Now, when I try to create a project in Visual Studio 2008., I get an error: "MSBUildToolsPath is not specified for ToolsVersion" 4.0 ", defined in" HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ MSBuild \ TOolsVersions \ 4.0 ", or the specified value evaluates to blank line. " How do I change ToolsVersion to "3.5" so it works?

Answer 1

I realized that I needed to delete the registry key under HKLM / Software / Wow6432node / Microsoft.

Answer 2

I successfully uninstalled VS 2015 and got this error. It only helped to remove the key 14.0 in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Wow6432node/Microsoft .

Answer 3

To be precise: Delete the following registries HKLM / Software / Microsoft / MSBuild / ToolVersions / 14.0 HKLM / Software / WOW6432Node / Microsoft / MSBuild / ToolVersions / 14.0

Answer 4

Make sure that the following registry keys do not exist in the machine: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ MSBuild \ 4.0 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ MSBuild \ ToolsVersion \ 4.0