error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V140\Microsoft.cpp.props" was not found.

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_{Monday, July 23, 2018 6:13 AM}

I downloaded Windows-driver-samples-master.zip and wanted to use the sample project usb/usbview.
As I tried to compile this project with Visual Studio Community 2017 Version 15.7.5, the error message came as follow:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Common7\IDE\VC\VCTargets\Microsoft.Cpp.Redirect.14.props(47,3):
error MSB4019: The imported project "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V140\Microsoft.cpp.props" was not found.
Confirm that the path in the declaration is correct, and that the file exists on disk.

I've checked the folder C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V140\
There are 2 directories, Plateforms and WDKConversion, and 1 file fxcop.xml

Please help me to solve this problem and build the usbview project to run.
Many thanks.

All replies (4)

_{Wednesday, July 25, 2018 3:30 AM | 1 vote}

Hi Quey,

Welcome to the MSDN forum.

Refer to your description, your issue is about the Windows Driver development and the sample seems developed in VS 2015, since our forum is to discuss the VS IDE, please redirect to this appropriate forumto seek for a more professional support for this issue, thank you for your understanding.

For the error message, please check this similar issueand hope it helpful.

Best regards,

Sara

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_{Wednesday, July 25, 2018 9:18 AM | 1 vote}

Have you installed the Visual Studio 15 compiler tools? You can do this in the Visual Studio 2017 installer:

This is the last option under the desktop development with C++ workload.

Adding this option adds the Visual Studio 2015 compiler tools and the auxiliary files so you can build, this includes the MSBuild files.

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_{Monday, July 30, 2018 1:26 AM}

Oh, right, and I thought that's a nightmare.
I have installed/uninstalled entire Visual Studio 4 times.

This time I go try it with ' Visual Studio 15 compiler tools'

Thanks a lot.

_{Monday, July 30, 2018 1:28 AM}

Thanks, I will go to check those information.