MSB8003: Could not find WindowsSDKDir variable from registry

Question

I have a Visual Studio 2015 project which was built and compiled on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine.  I have copied this project and its source code to another Windows 7 64-bit machine and when I try to compile, I get the following error:

Warning MSB8003: Could not find WindowsSDKDir variable from the registry.  TargetFrameworkVersion or PlatformToolset may be set to an invalid version number.

Help!

The only difference I can find between these 2 machines is the original has Windows SDK Version 7.0 installed on it and the other machine where I am having compilation issues has Windows SDK Version 7.1 installed on it.

Thanks,

Ron

Answer 1

Visual Studio information and help is available in the MSDN forums.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/home

Answer 2

Has nobody else had this problem?  Help!

Answer 3

Update:   I get this same error when I create simple projects on this machine and try to compile them.  This machine does not and cannot have access to the internet.  This created many issues when installing Visual Studio 2015 but it did install like this on the machine which does work.