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I am using Visual Studio 2015 (Update 3) in Windows 10. I have one Solution consisting of several projects. One of these projects has to be built with platform toolset Visual Studio 2013(v120). Unfortunately, It's not installed on my machine. I know how to change platform toolset for projects or retarget Solution but I don't want to do this. I want to install Visual Studio 2013 platform toolset (v120) for Visual Studion 2015. The only way that I found so far is to install the whole Visual Studio 2013 besides 2015 version which is not a good solution.

I have tried different solution for this problem such as installing v120 build tools separately and Look at this link. But it did not work for me. Any solution except installing Visual Studio 2013 would be welcome.

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You can install the VS2013 toolset from your VS2015 installer without installing Visual Studio 2013.

From the 2015 installer, select "Windows 8.1 and Windows Phone 8.0/8.1 Tools" and "Common Tools for Visual C++ 2015":

Visual Studio 2015 installer

After the installation has completed, you will find the platform Toolset below:

Installed toolsets in VS2015

You should now be able to build your project with the platform toolset for Visual Studio 2013 (v120).

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    Now this is interesting. Is there similar functionality in VS2017 as well? E.g. are there options to install v120 and/or v140 toolsets? – stijn Mar 09 '17 at 08:01
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    @stijn, yes, there is option VC++ 2015.3 v140 Toolset(x86,x64) on the Visual Studio Installer on Visual Studio 2017 RTM. But only v140 can be selected, have no v120. – Leo Liu Mar 09 '17 at 09:32
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    Is there a way to get v120 on visual studio 2017 besides having to install VS 2013? – cjsimon Feb 11 '18 at 10:05
  • i know, one year later but did you find a solution @cjsimon ? – Isitar Feb 18 '19 at 16:40
  • VS 2015 Community edition doesn't seem to have the installer. Workaround is:

    Navigate to Control Panel
    Go to Programs
    Click on Programs and Features
    Find Microsoft Visual Studio in the list of programs
    Right click on Microsoft Visual Studio 2015
    Select Change
    Select Modify
    Choose the packages you want
    Select Next
     – Shishir Jaiswal Jul 22 '19 at 11:00
  • Not possible on Windows 7, or at least I don't see the second install option :( – Benjol Jan 27 '20 at 06:32