Tengo MS Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate y el sistema operativo es Windows 7, y tengo nodos instalados. Quería instalar socket.io usando npm, pero recibo el siguiente error.

C:\Users\NEW>npm install socket.io
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/socket.io
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/socket.io
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/socket.io-client/0.9.11
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/policyfile/0.0.4
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/base64id/0.1.0
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/redis/0.7.3
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/socket.io-client/0.9.11
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/base64id/0.1.0
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/policyfile/0.0.4
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/redis/0.7.3
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/uglify-js/1.2.5
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/ws
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/xmlhttprequest/1.4.2
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/active-x-obfuscator/0.0.1
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/ws
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/xmlhttprequest/1.4.2
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/uglify-js/1.2.5
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/active-x-obfuscator/0.0.1
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/zeparser/0.0.5
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/tinycolor
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/commander
npm http GET https://registry.npmjs.org/options
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/zeparser/0.0.5
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/commander
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/tinycolor
npm http 304 https://registry.npmjs.org/options

> [email protected] install C:\Users\NEW\node_modules\socket.io\node_modules\socket.io-c
lient\node_modules\ws

> (node-gyp rebuild 2> builderror.log) || (exit 0)

C:\Users\NEW\node_modules\socket.io\node_modules\socket.io-client\node_modules\w
s>node "C:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\bin\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_mo
dules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild

Building the projects in this solution one at a time. To enable parallel build,
please add the "/m" switch.

MSBUILD : error MSB3411: Could not load the Visual C++ component "VCBuild.exe".
 If the component is not installed, either 1) install the Microsoft Windows SDK
 for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5, or 2) install Microsoft Visual
 Studio 2008.  [C:\Users\NEW\node_modules\socket.io\node_modules\socket.io-clie
nt\node_modules\ws\build\binding.sln]

MSBUILD : error MSB3411: Could not load the Visual C++ component "VCBuild.exe".
 If the component is not installed, either 1) install the Microsoft Windows SDK
 for Windows Server 2008 and .NET Framework 3.5, or 2) install Microsoft Visual
 Studio 2008.  [C:\Users\NEW\node_modules\socket.io\node_modules\socket.io-clie
nt\node_modules\ws\build\binding.sln]

[email protected] node_modules\socket.io
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
├── [email protected]
└── [email protected] ([email protected], [email protected], active-x-obf
[email protected], [email protected])

¿Cuál podría ser el problema? ¿Cómo puedo solucionarlo?