installing ionic on windows complains no c++ compiler

I tried to install ionic on my windows desktop. I got the error

MSBUILD : error MSB3428: Could not load the Visual C++ component "VCBuild.exe". To fix this, 1) install the .NET Framework 2.0 SDK, 2) install Microsoft Visual Studio 2005

I cannot find Visual Studio 2005. The version I can find is 2015. I try to install it and it need about 10G space which is a little bit ridiculous.

Eventually I found this solution online and it worked for me

https://github.com/nodejs/node-gyp/issues/802