We have Visual C++ 6.0 Professional version installed on a VM long time back. We are creating a new VM and need VC++ 6.0 Pro to be installed on it. We have no plans of migrating it to newer versions of visual studio.
Where can I buy/download Visual C++ 6.0 Professional version?
If you are retiring your old VM, perhaps you can use something like Magical Jelly Bean to retrieve your existing license key and then transfer it to your new VM.
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I have a visual studio package which currently targets .NET Framework version 4.5 and works with Visual Studio versions from 2012 up to 2019.
If I upgrade to .NET Framework 4.7.2, what does this mean for compatibility with different versions of Visual Studio?
Will it automatically make the package incompatible with older versions of Visual Studio (e.g. 2012, 2013 and 2015)?
if you install a specific version of .net framework you can see that in your target framework.
you can use this address to see all the .net SDK for visual studio
https://dotnet.microsoft.com/download/visual-studio-sdks?utm_source=getdotnetsdk&utm_medium=referral
you must attention, if you want to using .NetCore in your project you must have a newer version of Visual Studio like 2017 or 2019.
An answer for those who doesn't need compatibility deeper than 2017
(But still ended up here from a search engine.)
Check system requirements.
For example, Visual Studio 2017 Product Family System Requirements says that:
Visual Studio requires .NET Framework 4.7.2 to run, and this will be
installed during setup.
This means that we can be 100% sure that it's safe to target 4.7.2 when targeting VS 2017.
P.S.: The reason I limit backward compatibility to 2017 is I don't see any mentions of .NET framework in the system requirements of older versions, so this method won't help with targeting older versions.
So, now that Visual Studio 2013 supports the Compact Edition AppBuilder.. Does anyone know where to find the right EMDK or how to create a new solution for a Motorols/Symbol MC9090 ?
The Motorola/Symbol EMDK for .NET only is only supported up to VS 2005/2008 since Windows Mobile SDKs only have support up to VS 2008.
This is the most recent EMDK release, check the release notes for installation requirements: EMDK for .NET
Update: Fixed link to new support site.
We still use Visual Studio 2008 for our EMDK development, however, I believe Microsoft has added .NET 3.9 support for Visual Studio 2015.
While the EMDK doesn't support Visual Studio 2015, the references would still work you just wouldn't have the toolbox objects. Not sure how big an issue that would be for you but we've never used them!
So if you started a new project, you should be able to select the EMDK dlls required for your project if you have the EMDK installed on your machine. You will need to select the correct processor architecture for your device (I'm guessing armv4i as most Motorola kit seems to be this)
You also may need to work with .NET 3.9 exclusively which might give you a headache getting that onto the MC9090. You'll not only need to install but you'll need to make it stick for a cold boot. This will either need a platform build or some very creative splicing of the .NET 3.9 CAB file and some SymScript! :)
I have a Windows CE 5.0-based Platform Builder image. It is intended to be installed on Visual Studio 2005. My team would like to upgrade our build tools to utilize Visual Studio 2012, but Visual Studio 2012 does not support this platform image.
To be clear; I am not asking whether or not Visual Studio 2012 (or higher) supports Platform Builder SDKs targeting Windows CE 5.0. That question has already been answered (more or less), and the answer is clearly "No."
Instead, what I'd like to do is install the Platform Builder SDK, and manually modify the Visual Studio 2012 environment to allow compilation of my Windows CE code. Features like remote debugging and deployment are acceptable losses to my team; we have our own pathway for deployment and debugging on our embedded device. What I'm really hoping to gain is simply the ability to build WinCE 5.0 code in VS2012, which was intended for VS2005. I am attempting to reduce the number of Visual Studio installations, and get access to the superior intellisense faculties of newer versions of Visual Studio.
Does anyone know if this is possible? How would I go about doing that?
There does not appear to be a way to do this, in such a fashion as to no longer require Visual Studio 2005.
You can, however, use registry hacks to force Visual Studio 2012 to build a WinCE 5.0 project by utilizing the compiler binaries from Visual Studio 2005, during compilation. This would allow you to develop code in VS2012, but would also require that VS2005 be installed for a successful build.
Here is an article explaining the steps to set this up.
VS2012 doesn't have any of the Windows CE compilers. The last one that shipped with compilers compatible with CE 5.0 was VS 2008, so that's the "latest" version you'll be able to use to build. (VS2012 is capable of building for Windows CE, but only for WEC 2013, and only after installing a WEC 2013 SDK, which includes the requisite compiler pieces).
In short, there's no way you can get VS2012 by itself to compile a CE 7.0 or earlier app.
There is a plug-in for VS 2013 that will allow you to use that IDE for managed code (I've never used it, so I can't say how well it works), but it still requires VS 2008 to be installed to get the compilers.
I'm helping someone with a new Windows 7 workstation that has two nVidia GPUs and see that MS Visual Studio is required for the complete Cuda 5.5 Toolkit to install properly.
Silly question: is Visual Studio not a free download? Also: there are many different versions of Visual Studio 2012, which should be installed?
Thanks in advance for your comments and suggestions.
Dan
Visual Studio comes in free and non-free versions.
According to the CUDA 5.5 release notes, you need either the full version of Visual Studio 2012 or the free version, which is called Visual Studio Express, and has some limitations compared to the full (paid) version.
You want the version of Visual Studio which is for Desktop use (which includes the C++ environment).
"Visual Studio Express 2012 for Windows Desktop"
I recently downloaded VS 2010 trial, the new version is more easy to use.
I have VS 2008 installed, If i decide to use VS 2010 in the future, do I still have to keep VS 2008? Is there any compatibility issue with it?
You would need to keep VS2008 installed if you target Windows CE (via Compact Framework, native smart device projects, etc.)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/sa69he4t.aspx
Also if you want to write native applications that run on versions of Windows before XP SP3 and Server 2003 SP2, this is no longer possible with VC++ 2010. The same applies to managed code written for the .NET Framework 4.0, but you can still use Framework 3.5 with VS2010 for projects with managed code only.
And Intellisense for C++/CLI code is gone (MS promises to remedy that in the future, whether a service pack or the next version I cannot say).
If you open a VS 2008 solution or a project in VS 2010 it will be converted to VS 2010 and you will not be able to open it in VS 2008.
If that is not a problem then you don´t have to keep VS 2008, unless you are using a addin or some other third party application with VS 2008 that is not compatible with VS 2010.
Edit:
Look at Ben Voigt´s answer for information for which version have support for different platforms.
VS2010 allows you to specify the target framework that you'd like to develop on. There should be no reason to keep VS2008 installed unless you've become accustom to some handy plugins :)