Cant open visual studio sharepoint project - visual-studio-2012

I had been setting up new sharepoint development environment with SP2013 standalone and Visual Studio 2012 on a VM. After installing Sharepoint 2013, I installed visual studio 2012. However when I open a sharepoint project I get an error (screen dump provided here http://ibin.co/1v7oDUiUcgln). What could be it? Should I re-install from scratch or is it a problem with SP2013 vs VS2012?
-Thanks!

After installing the developer tools I managed to import sharepoint2013 templates. you can download the template here.
http://absolute-sharepoint.com/2013/10/offline-install-of-office-developer-tools-for-visual-studio-2012.html

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