>I doubt it's looking for .Net 4.5 since it hasn't been released yet.

Ooops - didn't realize Sql 2012 actually shipped already :-)

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>>Best way to find out where the framework is installed is to look in:
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>>c:\windows\Microsoft .NET\Framework (and/or Framework64) folder. You should see a folder for each version of the framework installed below that folder.
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>>If you have VS 2010 installed you have to have .NET 4.0 installed as it uses .NET 4.0 internally so if some application is complaining it's not there it's just plain wrong :-)
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>>I suspect that SQL 2012 may require .NET 4.5 however and that may be the problem you're running into. Unfortunately THAT's very difficult to tell if it's installed. See my blog post a little while ago:
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>>http://www.west-wind.com/weblog/posts/2012/Mar/13/NET-45-is-an-inplace-replacement-for-NET-40
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