Can't access VS2008 toolset from VS2013

Question

Could anyone help me with my really simple situation?

• I installed VS2008 (Professional)
• Updated to SP1
• Installed other updates offered by Windwos Update
• Installed VS2013 (Update 2 Ultimate)

After that I made a new project, opened projects and I was disappointed, because the following thing was shown:

http://grabilla.com/04710-36a0424a-57c7-4e35-9792-72fd6310c989.png

Could anyone help me what should I do now? I have VS2008 installed, but it doesn't show up on the platform toolset list. Do you have to set something? Did I make something wrong?

Thank you for your help guys! :)

Answer 1

Problem solved via Installing VS2010 too. To have VS2008 toolset you need VS2008, VS2010 (and in my case:) VS2013.

Answer 2

You can not use (in a supported way) the VS2008 Tool chain in VS2013.

There are some tricks that maybe work, i tested with VS2010, executing the VS2008 version of vcvarsall.bat (the file containing the environment variables to set for Visual Studio to find the tools) before loading VS and when load it use the VS2008 Tool Chain, I don't recommended the intellisense would be out of sync and might be other problems.