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Visual Studio on Windows 7

Anonymous
2009-10-28T15:58:14+00:00

I have upgraded a Vista laptop to Windows 7. After upgrading I found I could not run VS 2008. I tried installing the VS2010 Beta 2 to see if that would work but sadly no, I have now unloaded both versions and reinstalled VS 2008. It appears to install without errors but when I try to load an existing project it fails to load with the following error:-

Unable to read project file <name>. MSBuildToolsPath is not specified for the 'Tools Version "4.0"' defined at 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSFT\MSBUILD\TOOLSVERSION\4.9, or the value specified evaluates to the empty string.

Can anyone help???

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2009-10-29T13:40:14+00:00

Hello Ray.B

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  1. Anonymous
    2010-04-26T21:39:28+00:00

    Make sure the following registry keys do not exist in the machine:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSBuild\4.0HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSBuild\ToolsVersion\4.0

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