Visual Studio 2012安装和.NET SDK

Question

I'm trying to get MSBuild working via the Microsoft.Build library (ie. not via the command line exe). This is giving me the following error:

Could not locate the .NET Framework SDK. The task is looking for the path to the .NET Framework SDK at the location specified in the SDKInstallRootv2.0 value of the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\SOFTWARE\\Microsoft.NETFramework. You may be able to solve the problem by doing one of the following: 1.) Install the .NET Framework SDK. 2.) Manually set the above registry key to the correct location. Normal : No resources are out of date with respect to their source files. Skipping resource generation.

The app I'm writing will be used internally by a few people - all of whom will have VS2012 installed, but probably not explictly installed the SDK. Is the .NET Framework SDK not included in the VS2012 install? I've had a look through the directories, but not really sure what files the msbuild libraries needs, so don't really know what I'm looking for. The only directory I can see which looks similar is:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\SDK

But this just contains an empty v3.5\\bin folder.

It sounds like everyone using this app will need to explicitly install the SDK aswell as Visual Studio. Is this correct, or are the required files installed as part of the VS install?

Answer 1

Looks like it was because Visual Studio put the registry key in the following location:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\.NETFramework

Note the Wow6432Node . Changing my app from Any CPU to x86 resolved the issue.