MSBuild 4.5 is missing

Question

I have just installed Visual Studio 2012 Premium and am in the process of converting our codebase to .NET 4.5, but the MSBuild 4.5 seems to be missing.

The page http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397428 indicates that there should be a folder for the MSBuild 4.5 toolset at "Windows installation path\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.5.00000\", but I do not have this folder on my machine. Also it says there should be a registry hive at "\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSBuild\ToolsVersions\4.5\" but again, I don't have this on my machine.

Is there something else I need to install?

Answer 1

Hi

That page is wrong. .net 4.5 is an inplace upgrade of 4.0 so you will only have Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319

I'll try get the page updated.

Regards

Mike

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Answer 2

The topic was recently revised to fix that issue and to make several other improvements. The changes should be live on MSDN within the next few weeks.  Thanks for the posting.