Using the v120 Platform Toolkit in Visual Studio 2015

Question

I am using Visual Studio 2015 (Update 3) on Windows 10. I have one solution consisting of several projects. One of these projects should be built using the tools of the Visual Studio 2013 platform (v120). Unfortunately, it is not installed on my machine. I know how to change the platform toolkit for projects or Retarget Solution, but I do not want to do this. I want to install the Visual Studio 2013 platform toolkit (v120) for Visual Studion 2015. The only way I have found so far is to install the entire version of Visual Studio 2013 besides version 2015, which is not a good solution.

I tried another solution for this problem, for example, install the v120 build tools separately and have a look at this link . But that did not work for me. Any solution other than installing Visual Studio 2013 is welcome.

Answer 1

You can install the VS2013 kit version from the VS2015 installer without installing visual studio 2013. From the 2015 installer, select Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.0 / 8.1 Tools and General Tools for Visual C ++ 2015:

After installation is complete, you will find the Toolset platform below:

Then you can create your project using the tools of the Visual Studio 2013 platform (v120).

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