So with Windows 7's XP Mode, will this allow developers to run Visual Studio 2003 on Windows 7 without hacks?
Thanks all!
-Steve
Yes, most certainly. But not "on Windows 7", rather on a virtual machine running Windows XP hosted on Windows 7.
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I am managing a "legacy" environment,owned by retired developers.
A have many Windows Forms Silverlight applications built with VS 2010,2012,2013 running on windows xp and windows 7.
We are moving to a new hardware/software environment running windows 2012 R2,so
I was asked if these older applications can run on ws2012r2.
My understanding is that these applications should work;what is the best approch to answer this problem?
Thank you
I am using a Windows Server 2008 R2 virtual machine for general windows development (SharePoint among other things, hence the server edition).
I have received a project from a client that I need to debug, and it is a Windows Phone 8.1 project developed on Windows 8.1 - can I "convert" this project or develop on it in it's current form on this virtual machine?
When I open the solution, the project itself just says "Windows 8.1 required", and I would prefer not having to set up another VM with Windows 8.1, Visual Studio, etc. again just for this specific solution.
No. The project already says that 8.1 is required. WS2008 doesn't have the bits it needs to render the Phone app.
is it possible to develop windows 8 phone applications in windows 7 with vs.net 2010?
Or do I need to upgrade to windows 8 altogether?
Windows Phone 8 development possible under windows 7?
No, Windows 8 64-bit and Visual Studio 2012 are required.
Windows 8 Pro is also required to run the emulator (along with a processor that supports SLAT).
Source: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35471
You can modify the installation files to allow it to be installed on Windows 7.
Here are the modified setup files for WP8 SDK 9900:
Run InstallWP8SDK.bat to start the installation!
Download: http://www5.zippyshare.com/v/67777536/file.html
Have fun developing on the good old Windows 7.
This might sound like a stupid question, but I'm asking because my boss wants to know. What is the minimum Windows OS for binaries created with Visual Studio 2010? Not all the developers on the team have the Windows SDK installed. I know with it you can target down to Windows XP, but any idea what you can target without Windows SDK?
Actually you set WINVER in any header file before the core window.h is included, this determines which OS is required by the binary.
Visual Studio 2005
Windows 98, Windows 98 Second Edition
Windows Millennium Edition
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Server 2003
Visual Studio 2008
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Server 2003
Windows Vista
Visual Studio 2010
Windows XP
Windows Server 2003
Windows Vista
Windows Server 2008
Windows 7
Windows Server 2008 R2
Visual Studio 2012
Windows XP
Windows Server 2003
Windows Vista
Windows Server 2008
Windows 7
Windows Server 2012 R2
Windows 8
From:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/ms235435.aspx
And for history's sake:
VC6 for Win95, NT 3 & 4, Win2K and other older operating systems
Use Visual C++ 1.52 or Microsoft QuickC for 16-bit or DOS
I am a developer and have a XP laptop that I use to dev a SQL 2005 database and MSAccess 2003 frontend database as well as VS2003 website.
I want to upgrade to Win 7 using XP mode to install the software above. This is because I still want to install Office 2007 on Win7 etc.
Do you think XP mode on Win7 will be reliable enough for this? Also do all xp mode apps have to run in the xp mode window? Is it possible to access xp mode SQL db from Windows 7 mode?
Visual Studio .NET 2003 is not compatible with Windows 7 and would have to be run in XP Mode. Visual Studio 2005 will require Service Pack 1 to work properly as well. SQL Server 2005 will install without a problem at all.
The XP mode offered in Windows 7 is basically an integrated Windows Virtual PC. The XP mode can be reliable (if you think we can call XP reliable) but the performance of a virtual machine will always be lower comparing to a natively installed windows xp.
You can make the SQL db in the XP mode accessible from Windows 7, since XP Mode is essentially a virtual machine, you need to configure the database in the Virtual Machine to allow external connections to it as a database server.