无法在Visual Studio 2013中正确创建C ++项目

Question

When I try to create win32 C++ project it's giving me the following error:

Unable to read the file. project cannot be loaded. Root element is missing

Here is a screen shot. I had to reinstall the studio:

Answer 1

The C:\\Users\\...\\AppData\\Local\\Microsoft\\MSBuild\\v4.0\\Microsoft.Cpp.Win32.user.props is missing, as the OP clarified in a comment. This would suggest that the VS (re)installation did not complete successfully.

For a quick try, you could create the missing file yourself in Notepad with the following contents.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 
<Project DefaultTargets="Build" ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">

</Project>

Chances are, however, that there may be more issues with the VS installation than just this missing file.