I know that Visual Studio Test Professional cannot be installed on XP and it uses .NET 4.5, but does anyone know if it is possible to separately install and use the Test Runner component on an XP machine to run manual tests? I've been scouring the MS site and have not been able to find an answer, although I see references to running test agents on XP machines.
You might be able to do so as part of a Lab Environment: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee518930.aspx
You need to install MTM to launch test runner, test runner cannot be separately installed. To install MTM 2012, you need Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate, Visual Studio 2012 Premium, or Test Professional 2012, none of them can be installed on windows XP machine.
"test agent" component which is used to run automated tests on a multi-machine environment and that component is supported on windows xp.
For more info: http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US
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I have some users working on Windows 10 Professional and Windows 10 Home. I usually do continuous integration for windows on Appveyor, but I am not so familiar with the details of Windows versions.
I checked the Appveyor website and it says that build images "Visual Studio 2015" and "Visual Studio 2017" support Windows 10 SDK 10.0.10586, and some other Windows 10 SDKs. Now is this what I need to test with to validate Windows 10 Home and Professional? I was not sure if the SDK is the right thing to test against, or if there is some other build image I should use, etc?
Thanks.
AppVeyor currently provides testing on Windows Server only, however you can run builds on your own server/cloud with Bring-Your-Own-Cloud (BYOC) feature: https://www.appveyor.com/docs/byoc/
I have created Coded UI scripts in VS2010 Premium version. Now i want to install VS 2010 Ultimate version for Performance Testing.
Will my scripts those were created in 2010 Premium version run in 2010 ultimate version without any further changes?
Yes Vivek. It will definitely run without any changes. Post over here if you are facing any issue while doing the same.
There won't be any issue within different editions of VS but you may need to copy some DLLs if you are trying with different versions like 2012 VS scripts in 2013 VS. you may use relevant Test Agents if you are running outside VS.
I am currently working on a long-term project for which I need Visual Studio 2005, 2008, 2012 (2010 not necessary). Right now I have Windows 7, but I would really like to upgrade. Is it possible to install all of those versions of Visual Studio on Windows 8?
2012 can obviously installed (and takes away the need for 2010). I already found reports that 2008 is also possible if the 3.5 framework is enabled through Windows Features, but I'm unsure about Visual Studio 2005.
Is it possible and does anybody have any experience with this?
PS: Do not come with solutions as "Why still use 2005, 2008, ...", I really need it.
After installing it on VMWare (Virtualbox gives errors) I've enabled framework 3.5 (which indeed contains 2.0 and 2.5). After that I've installed Visual Studio C# Express Edition. During installation and startup of VS it gives a lot of "This program has been known for comptability problems" warnings and they offer to search help online or to run it as usual. I've always opted to let it run as usual. It installed fine and I could compile and run a Visual C# Windows application.
Visual Studio 2005 Standard installed mostly fine for me. I installed it on Windows 8 on an x64 CPU. It complained a bunch about "known compatibility issues," but if I told it to carry on everything seemed to go fine. The only catch was that "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition x64" failed to install. Also, I had to run Visual Studio as administrator the first time so it could finish its setup, but after that I've just run it with my normal account.
Download Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation and install to VMWare or Virtual Box. It's a 3 month trial and would allow you to test VS2005 plus the others. Once downloaded, it's a fast install. You can download from here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/evalcenter/jj554510.aspx
For an install of Visual Studio 2005 on Windows 7 as well as Windows 8 I install three things: (1) Visual Studio 2005, (2) Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1, and (3) Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista.
The Visual Studio 2005 service packs can be a bit difficult to locate on Microsoft's web site since everything is really about Visual Studio 2012 and later.
When installing Visual Studio 2005, there will be a number of Incompatible warnings displayed. I just click through them to get to the end.
Also I do a custom install and do not install some components: (1) Crystal Reports and (2) SQL Server 2005 Express Edition.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Service Pack 1 which seems to be for all editions of Visual Studio 2005 including Professional Edition which I use.
Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista is required to update Service Pack 1 to work with Windows Vista and later.
Visual Studio 2005 / 2008 won't install by default on Windows versions later than 7.
In Windows 8.1, go to:
Control Panel > Programs and Features > Turn Windows features on or off
Check the box labeled ".NET 3.5 (Includes 1.0 and 2.0)" and press OK / Apply.
My system has issues with trying to download the files for such programs, and thus there is a way to bypass this error by running a script which installs the files from a Windows installation disc.
Here is the script (for error 0x800F0906, at least):
Dism /online /enable-feature /featurename:NetFx3 /All /Source:D:\sources\sxs /LimitAccess
You can replace /Source:D: with whatever drive letter you may be using for your optical / virtual drive, if needed.
Can I use Visual Studio 2011 running on the Windows 8 Developer Preview to publish programs that will not only run on Windows 8, but that will run on Windows XP, Vista, 7 and 8? I know that using Visual Studio 2010 while Running XP can produce applications that will run on XP and up, but can it work the other way?
UPDATE: By Publish I mean that I want to package my application into an installer and distribute it.
I am Using Visual Basic .NET as the programing language within Visual Studio 2011
UPDATE 2: Also, If I can't make my app available on XP through 8, then can I use Visual Studio 2010 to do this or is it a matter of Operating Systems?
The version of VS11 that comes in the Win8 DP will only let you build Win8 apps. You can install VS2010 side by side with it though to do other types of development.
I had an issue installing Visual Studio 2010 RC on Windows XP SP3?
(Have installed same ISO package on Vista and worked fine...)
Setup would fail no matter what I tried:
Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate RC Setup
A problem has been encountered while
loading the setup components.
Canceling setup.
I found a solution by "Mikael Söderström" on MSDN Forums:
Display the language bar at the
taskbar, right-click on it and choose
settings. Then you remove the hand
writing support from the list.
See
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/setupprerelease/thread/dbcdcd52-d162-4460-9920-33c9ab54b36f
I was installing VS2010 on a windows 7 machine inside a "Windows XP Mode" instance and it was failing.
The reason being the install files were not on the Windows XP instance.
Copying the setup files to within the XP instance fixed the issue.