MSB3411 Could not load Visual C++ component

Question

I have MS Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate and OS is Windows 7, and have nodeJs installed.I wanted to install socket.io using npm,but I get the following error.

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Answer 1

Sorry to dig up an old question, but your question is the first result when I searched for "Socket.io VCBuild"

The solution I found, after stumbling around on StackOverflow was:

npm install socket.io --msvs_version=2012

Update from @petf-felzmann. If you're using VS 2015 you can use:

npm install socket.io --msvs_version=2015