@Aaron: according to Oscar and George VS2012 Express is good to go.
@Emile: the extension doesn’t do that, you might want to check out this
@Oscar: it’s not crucial, i was just wondering if the information was correct. As you can see in the link it’s only useful for:
Setting the Startup Project
Bindable command for building the Startup Project
Setting the command line arguments
(which aren’t really important to me at the moment)