Thursday, February 27, 2014

Migration from Visual Studio 2012 to Visual Studio 2013

The tag "PlatformToolset" included in vcxproj file specifies the tool chain used in the Visual Studio IDE.
For Visual Studio 2012, this value is set to “v110”; for Visual Studio 2013, this value is set to “v120”.

Note that by default the code compiled under Windows 7 using Visual Studio 2012 cannot run on Windows XP system even though it works on Windows 7. The issue can be fixed by updating the latest service pack like "Update 1" or the newer versions such as "Update 4" for Visual Studio 2012.

When using Visual Studio 2013 Express Edition for Windows Desktop (free), two versions of tool sets will
be installed by default. One is “v120” as default, and the other is “v120_xp” which is targeted for Windows
XP platform.

After updating the PlatformToolset tag, Visual Studio 2013 will not complain when opening the solution files with theses vcx project files. 

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