The builds tools for v120 Platform Toolset v120 cannot be found

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Using visual studio 2012 on windows 8 x64 aparantly this is caused by msbuild being moved into  net but I havn t seen how to fix it yet   4 gt C  Program Files  x86  MSBuild Microsoft Cpp v4 0 V110 Microsoft Cpp Platform targets 44 5   error MSB8020  The builds tools for v120  Platform Toolset    v120   cannot be found  To build using the v120 build tools  either click the Project menu or right-click the solution  and then select  Update VC   Projects      Install v120 to build using the v120 build tools      2 gt C  Program Files  x86  MSBuild Microsoft Cpp v4 0 V110 Microsoft Cpp Platform targets 44 5   error MSB8020  The builds tools for v120  Platform Toolset    v120   cannot be found  To build using the v120 build tools  either click the Project menu or right-click the solution  and then select  Update VC   Projects      Install v120 to build using the v120 build tools      5 gt C  Program Files  x86  MSBuild Microsoft Cpp v4 0 V110 Microsoft Cpp Platform targets 44 5   error MSB8020  The builds tools for v120  Platform Toolset    v120   cannot be found  To build using the v120 build tools  either click the Project menu or right-click the solution  and then select  Update VC   Projects      Install v120 to build using the v120 build tools

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I was getting the same error with building USBView project in VS2015. I removed this error by selecting 'Platform Toolset' settings to to "Visual Studio 2015 (v140)" and than right click on solution (in VS2015) and select 'Retarget Solution' and selected 10.0.10240.0 on that dialog.

It seems like there is also ProjectUpgradeTool from microsoft which is suppose to convert older projects to upgrade to post VS2012 VS but I couldn't locate that tool on my machine.

I still have to fix some new linker error with help of this.

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When a VS2013 C   project is opened in VS2015  and there are warnings about  The build tools for v120    cannot be found   I simply need to edit the  vcxproj file and change  lt PlatformToolset gt v120 lt  PlatformToolset gt  to  lt PlatformToolset gt v140 lt  PlatformToolset gt   and close and re-open the solution

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I was facing same issue while building some of project    I used Visual Studio 2015 IDE  there it was working fine but while giving build from PowerShell script  it was giving toolset related  The builds tools for v140  Platform Toolset    v140   cannot be found   error  So eventually it was issue of pointing to incorrect MSBUILD exe for the respective project   Earlier I was pointing to  MSBUILD  C  windows Microsoft NET Framework v4 0 30319 MSBuild exe  And build was successful when I updated script to point to  MSBUILD  C  Program Files  x86  MSBuild 14 0 Bin MSBuild exe   Hence to resolve the issue  please make sure to use correct MSBUILD

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Wasted 4  hours on this   I have Visual Studio 2017 Enterprise  one of the projects has below error      The builds tools for v120  Platform Toolset    v120   cannot be found   To resolve above error  I tried to install all below    Microsoft Build Tools 2013   v120 tools    https   www microsoft com en-US download details aspx id 40760 Microsoft Build Tools 2015 https   www microsoft com en-in download details aspx id 48159 Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 https   visualstudio microsoft com downloads  build-tools-for-visual-studio-2017   However  none of the above worked   Later  installed Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate  then all worked fine   Looks like  the older Visual studio is a must to resolve this   Hope it helps

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I had a similar problem  VS 2015 Community  MSBuild 14  building a c   app  wanted to use VS 2010  v100  tools   It all came down giving msbuild an invalid configuration option   Strange   So  recheck all those options and parameters

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If you use make generators like cmake  JUCE  etc  try to set a correct VS version target  2013  2015  2017  and regenerate the solution again

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In VS2013 to set up all projects to correct build tools  you can do a right click on the solution in solution explorer and choose  Retarget solution   It will change all progects  all you check with the checkbox in opened dialog   so the error will be gone

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In my case  I have double-clicked a Visual 2013 sln file and Visual 2012 opened  instead of Visual 2013   Trying to compile with Visual 2012  a project that has the Platform Toolset set to  v120  showed the error above mentioned  However  reopening the sln with Visual 2013  the Platform Toolset was set to  Visual Studio 2013  v120   - please note the complete name this time -  actually did the job for me  The project compiles well now

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In VS 2012  I was getting  SMB2 will not build  Error   1   error MSB8020  The builds tools for Visual Studio 2010  Platform Toolset    v100   cannot be found  To build using the v100 build tools  either click the Project menu or right-click the solution  and then select  Update VC   Projects      Install Visual Studio 2010 to build using the Visual Studio 2010 build tools    Throwing caution to the wind  I tried the suggestion  Selected the Solution in Solution Explorer  then clicked in the  Update VC    menu item  This did some updateing and then started a build which succeeded    The  Update VC    menu item no longer appears in the solution menu

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Download and setup Microsoft Build Tools 2013 from http   www microsoft com en-US download details aspx id 40760

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To add up to Kevin and Lex s answers   We had a similar situation at work where both the developers and the build server had Visual Studio 2013  Our solution had a VS 2013 C   project and compiled fine when built on developer s machine or on the build server within the IDE  The issue was when triggering builds using TFS build definitions  We were still using an old build template  version 11 1  instead of 12 0  Fortunately  a simple attribute addition to the template xaml file solved the issue  In the Sequence portion  Compile the Project   there is a xaml node that starts with   mtbwa MSBuild CommandLineArgument        You can add a  ToolPath  attribute and point it to the right path of the MSBuild exe you wish to invoke  based on Kevin s answer  For instance   ToolPath  C  Program Files  x86  MSBuild 12 0 Bin

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If you have VS2013 installed and are getting this error  you may be invoking the wrong MSBuild  With VS2013  Microsoft now includes MSBuild as part of Visual Studio  See this Visual Studio blog posting for details   In particular  note the new location of the binaries      On 32-bit machines they can be found in  C  Program   Files MSBuild 12 0 bin      On 64-bit machines the 32-bit tools will be under  C  Program Files    x86  MSBuild 12 0 bin      and the 64-bit tools under  C  Program Files    x86  MSBuild 12 0 bin amd64   The MSBuild in  WINDIR  Microsoft NET Framework  doesn t seem to recognize the VS2013  v120  platform toolset

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i had a similar problem when i removed VS 2013 community Update 5 and switched over to VS 2015 community edition  and the problem acquired in windows phone 8 1 projects where it complained about not having the right msbuild toolset and about the emulators not installed even if they are   i know that the source of the problem was the VS 2013 community settings that has been left by that last uninstall which messed everything for me even though the uninstall process went smooth with no problems from the control panel   i did my best to remove any files left but there was always some thing left   and what only fixed it for me is a fresh windows 10 x64 installation then after it i installed VS 2015 community edition and that s it   no more errors for me and the wp8 1 emulator worked fine too    in my case now am completely sure that the previous visual studio install settings has  messed everything for me and because there wasn t any way i found and tried to completely erase VS 2013 community files and settings i had to pay the price for it and reinstall my OS   you might be able to avoid OS reinstall if you can find a way to completely erase last visual studio install files   P S only attempt this solution OS reinstall  after you tried every possible way first then if nothing works and only then     make this solution as a last resort

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http   en wikipedia org wiki Visual C    You are using Visual C   2012 which is v110  v120 means Visual C   2013   So either you change the project settings to use toolset v110  or you install Visual Studio 2013 on this machine and use VS2013 to compile it

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if you are using visual 2012 right-click on project name -  properties -  configuration properties -  general -  platform toolset -  Visual Studio 2012  v110

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To add up to Louis answer   Alternatively you can use the attribute ToolVersion  12 0  if you are using Visual Studio 2013 instead of using the ToolPath Attribute  Details visit http   msdn microsoft com en-us library dd647548 aspx  So you are not forced to use absolute path

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