Visual Studio 2015 will not target Windows 10

Question

My installation of Visual Studio 2015 will not target any Windows 10 SDK version despite having the Windows 10 SDK version 10.0.10586 (and Update 2) installed.

When I open a solution that has Windows 10 as a target and attempt to build it, I get told I don't have that SDK version installed.

Checking the target platform version, I can see that there is no option to selection any 10.* versions.

However looking at the VS install, I can see that the Windows 10 SDK version 10.0.10586 is marked as installed.

Windows 10 SDK version 10.0.10586 should let me target it as well as 10.0.10240, but I am unable to target/build against either.

I've tried:

• uninstalling and reinstalling VS2015 with both SDKs selected (time-consuming but no change),
• repairing the VS2015 install (time-consuming but no change),
• uninstalling 10.0.10586 and installing 10.0.10240 separately and simultaneously (always an installation error 15605 on 10.0.10240),
• installing standalone versions of the SDK (always an error that 10.0.10586 is installed).

Answer 1

I had similar issue. I went to Control panel and uninstalled 10.0.10586, then went to https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/sdk-archive and downloaded 10.0.10586 SDK and installed it again. After this, it worked.