How come can't I find toolset setting in my VS?

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I would like to set my toolset, v110, v120, .... as said in https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj851139.aspx[^]

But I failed in "Configuration Properties" in following procedure from the above link:

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To target Windows XP
In Solution Explorer, open the shortcut menu for your project, and then choose Properties.
In the Property Pages dialog box for the project, under Configuration Properties, General,

...

How come? What's wrong with my VS 2013, which was just downloaded and installed.

Posted 2-Mar-15 23:41pm

Stan Huang

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CHill60 3-Mar-15 6:00am

So you right-clicked on the name of your project in Solution Explorer and chose Properties ... did the property pages dialog display?

Stan Huang 3-Mar-15 8:22am

Yes, property page shows, but I can't find Configuration Properties.

Richard MacCutchan 3-Mar-15 8:31am

Are you sure that you right clicked on the Project?

Stan Huang 3-Mar-15 9:32am

Very surely I did it.

CHill60 3-Mar-15 8:46am

To the left hand side of that dialog there is a list that contains "Common Properties", "Configuration Properties". Expand the "Configuration Properties" arrow and choose "General". Platform Toolset appears as the 7th item on the list in the right hand pane (assuming a standard install of VS)

Stan Huang 3-Mar-15 9:34am

I just see "Application", "Build", "Build Events", "Debug", ... No "Common Properties" or "Configuration Properties" were found.

CHill60 3-Mar-15 9:42am

What kind of project are you working on?? The link you gave is for C++ but these properties you have just listed are for .NET

Stan Huang 3-Mar-15 9:52am

Windows Form; VS 2013 / 2012 Express.

Richard MacCutchan 3-Mar-15 10:57am

What language: C, C++, C++/CLI, C#, VB ... ?

Richard MacCutchan 3-Mar-15 7:25am

Works fine on my system.

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CHill60 · Answer 1 · 2015-03-03T04:04:00

The link supplied by the OP was for a C++ project. OP has now confirmed that it's Windows Forms and

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I just see "Application", "Build", "Build Events", "Debug", ... No "Common Properties" or "Configuration Properties" were found

To do the equivalent:

On the Build tab of the properties pages there is a Platform target: - you can set that to x86 but note that this is not good practice! (Any CPU is preferable).

The better approach is to change the Target framework: in the Application tab to whichever version you have on your XP machine (3.5 is usually ok).

Note that I have experienced issues trying to run projects on XP that were built on Windows 7. I don't know if that is a common theme or it was just my set up at the time - I got around it by doing the build on the XP machine.