Error 'LINK : fatal error LNK1123: failure during conversion to COFF: file invalid or corrupt' after installing Visual Studio 2012 Release Preview

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I've installed Visual
Studio 2012 Release Preview, and it appears to be fine, but now when I try to use Visual
Studio 2010 to compile C++ projects, I get the following error
message:

LINK :
fatal error LNK1123: failure during conversion to COFF: file invalid or
corrupt

I'm not
100% sure of this, but it seems to be related to projects that have
.rc (resource) files in
them.

I've tried repairing Visual Studio 2010
from Add/Remove programs and rebooting, but this has no
effect.

I also get the same error if
I use Visual Studio 2012 RC to compile the C++ projects when set to use the Visual
Studio 2010 toolset. Upgrading to the Visual Studio 2011 toolset fixes the problem (but
of course I don't want to do this for production
code).

Update: I've uninstalled Visual
Studio 2012, rebooted, and the problem still persists!
Help!

Answer

href="http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/da-DK/vssetup/thread/d10adba0-e082-494a-bb16-2bfc039faa80"
rel="noreferrer">This MSDN thread explains how to fix
it.

To summarize:

• Either
  disable incremental linking, by going to
  

  
  
  

  Project Properties 
  
              -> Configuration Properties 
   -> Linker (General) 
   ->
              Enable Incremental Linking -> "No
              (/INCREMENTAL:NO)"
  




• or
  install VS2010
  SP1.

Edits
(@CraigRinger): Note that installing VS 2010 SP1 will remove the 64-bit
compilers. You need to install the href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/heaths/archive/2011/04/01/visual-c-2010-sp1-compiler-update-for-the-windows-sdk-7-1.aspx"
rel="noreferrer">VS 2010 SP1 compiler pack to get them
back.

This affects Microsoft
Windows SDK 7.1 for Windows 7 and .NET 4.0 as well as
Visual Studio 2010.