VS 2008 Create Project Tool version unrecognized
If you have error creating project and receive Unable read project file [full filename]: The tools version "3.5" is unrecognised, then the following should help to solve it.
Open up your Window registry :-
And make the following changes....
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSBuild]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSBuild\3.5]
"DefaultToolsVersion"="2.0"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSBuild\ToolsVersions]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSBuild\ToolsVersions\2.0]
"MSBuildToolsPath"="C:\\WINDOWS\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v2.0.50727\\"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSBuild\ToolsVersions\3.5]
"MSBuildToolsPath"="C:\\WINDOWS\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v3.5\\"
Open up your Window registry :-
And make the following changes....
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSBuild]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSBuild\3.5]
"DefaultToolsVersion"="2.0"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSBuild\ToolsVersions]
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSBuild\ToolsVersions\2.0]
"MSBuildToolsPath"="C:\\WINDOWS\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v2.0.50727\\"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSBuild\ToolsVersions\3.5]
"MSBuildToolsPath"="C:\\WINDOWS\\Microsoft.NET\\Framework\\v3.5\\"
Comments
This is a better explanation.
This worked for me.
At first I thought it did not work.
And then I just rebooted my machine once and it worked.
Now what is this error and do somebody has any other solution??