made the projects (example + ofxKinectForWindows) fully VS2012

Not sure if you want to maintain this as a separate branch or not? I followed the instructions in the 2nd answer on this page to fix the projects (unloading, editing the xml, and reloading). 
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/20886391/vs-2012-project-failed-to-build-because-of-missing-toolset

this doesn't look right
you're setting the x64 build to 32bit