Building Visual Studio 2015 C++ project (v140) by MSBuild Failed - v140 cannot be found

Question

I have Visual Studio 2013 and 2015 installed side by side. I have just upgraded the combined solution (C#, C++, C++/CLI) to 2015 and set Platform Toolset to v140.

The bu

Answer 1

One solution is that you can simply change the platform toolset that is available in your system. Then it build fine.