Building VC++ 2008 project with VS 2013

Question

I'm using VC++ 2008 express edition and Visual studio 2012 and 2013 professional version. I need to build a vc++ 2008 project with VS 2013 as formatting and intellisense are not good with vc++ 2008 express edition. But I'm getting the following issue. And in Platform Toolset in project property it is displaying as "Visual Studio 2008 (v90) (not installed)"

How to resolve this issue

error MSB8020: The build tools for Visual Studio 2008 (Platform Toolset = 'v90') cannot be found. To build using the v90 build tools, please install Visual Studio 2008 build tools. Alternatively, you may upgrade to the current Visual Studio tools by selecting the Project menu or right-click the solution, and then selecting "Upgrade Solution...". C:\\Program Files (x86)\\MSBuild\\Microsoft.Cpp\\v4.0\\V120\\Microsoft.Cpp.Platform.targets 64 5 glmRainbowRichesEInstant

Answer 1

the following worked for me: Download SDK 7.1 DVD , mount it on your device and install the missing complilers from \\Setup\\vc_stdx86 and/or \\Setup\\vc_stdamd64 .

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