In desperation over the inadequacies of VS 2010 C++, I made the fatal mistake of installing VS 2013 Express Desktop. Needless to say, neither product works. Furthermore, it would appear that these two products are incompatible
with the capability of 64-bit Win 7 Home Premium to install or uninstall either product completely and reliably.
Vestiges of VS 2013 remained after its uninstall in the form of undeleted directories and a screwed up registry.
I would love to get back to where I was 5 days ago with VS 2010, but several install/uninstall cycles and system restores later, I cannot create or load a project in VS 2010. I receive this cryptic error msg with no hint as to its solution:
C:\Users\Robert\Documents\Rob\Apps4win\VocabBuilder\VocabBuilder.vcxproj : error : Cannot evaluate the property expression "$([MSBuild]::ValueOrDefault('$(VCTargetsPath)','$(MSBuildExtension ...
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