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How to fix error MSB8020 when installing npm modules on Windows
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When installing some npm modules on Windows an error may show up that says:

error MSB8020: The build tools for Visual Studio 2010 (Platform Toolset = 'v100') cannot be found.

What you can do is set your installed version of Visual Studio when running npm install.

To do that simply run:

npm install <module> -msvs_version=2013

where msvs_version is equal to the version of Visual Studio that you have.

Yay!

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