Visual Studio 2013: "No framework version is selected, you must select one before creating a project."

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Marcus picture Marcus · Mar 19, 2015 · Viewed 7.4k times · Source

I've recently installed Visual Studio 2013 on my laptop (Windows 8.1) and I've ran into trouble when trying to create a project.

I'm prompted to select a framework version, but the list of frameworks is empty. See below picture.

Empty

As I've read on msdn, the .NET framework version 4.5 should be included in Visual Studio 2013, but as you can see, it's not in my list of frameworks.

I've tried to install version 4.5.3 manually but the problem persists.

How do I solve this?

Answer

Pieter de Vries picture Pieter de Vries · Mar 19, 2015

Uninstall Visual Studio then re install it from Microsoft website

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