Problem with installing Visual Studio on Windows 8

Question

Hi
 I am disappointed to buy windows 8 based machine. I installed visual studio 2013 on Windows 7 machine and it was compiling well
But i installed same on my windows 8 machine. But i am not able to compile simple program
Below is program
#include<stdio.h>
int main()
printf("Hello World");
return 0;
I am getting below error
Error 1
error MSB4018: The "CL" task failed unexpectedly.
System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Microsoft.Build.Utilities.FileTracker' threw an exception. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
   at Microsoft.Build.Utilities.FileTracker..cctor()
   --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
   at Microsoft.Build.CPPTasks.CL.ComputeOutOfDateSources()
   at Microsoft.Build.CPPTasks.TrackedVCToolTask.SkipTaskExecution()
   at Microsoft.Build.Utilities.ToolTask.Execute()
   at Microsoft.Build.CPPTasks.TrackedVCToolTask.Execute()
   at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskExecutionHost.Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.ITaskExecutionHost.Execute()
   at Microsoft.Build.BackEnd.TaskBuilder.<ExecuteInstantiatedTask>d__20.MoveNext()
C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V120\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets
341 5
ConsoleApplication1
This is strange.
Please help here
thanks
regards
Sobin

Answer 1

Error 1 error MSB4018: The "CL" task failed unexpectedly.
System.TypeInitializationException: The type initializer for 'Microsoft.Build.Utilities.FileTracker' threw an exception. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
See if this thread helps:
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