Visual Studio in WIndows 7

Hello All,
I dont know that is this right place to post it or not?
In my Home Windows XP is Operating system where i installed both (.Net 1.1 and .Net 2.0).
It is working fine.

But I format it and load Windows 7.
But then i want to install Visual Studio 2005.
But i am failure to do that.
Then I tried to installed VS80sp1-KB932232-X86-ENU and VS80sp1-KB926601-X86-ENU Service pack(Downloaded it from Microsoft).

But failure to installed it.

Anyone here installed succesfully Visual Studio 2005 in Windows 7?
And how it is possible?

hmmm. VS2005 is quite old. I have installed VS 2008 on my Windows 7 and it works like a charm.

What error you getting when trying to install 2005?

I have both in a 64bit Win7 machine. No problems installing VS2005.

Install VS2005 and ignore the warning (disable UAC). then install the service pack and the security patch.

Yes you can use Visual Studio 2005 in Windows 7… however none of the controls are optimized for that environment, you should be using 2008 (or the 2010 beta). Microsoft plan to cease all support for 2005 in not that much time which’ll mean you’ll be developing using abandonware. :slight_smile:

Will .NET 4.0 be treated as a “base release”? By that I mean, 2.0 was the base, as 3.0 and 3.5 we’re built “on top of” 2.0. Because if you build a website in 3.5, it still shows up as 2.0 Framework in the system folder. So, in the future (I know we can’t predict the future), but do you think that future releases will be build on top of 4.0, like 2.0 is today? Honestly, I guess it doesn’t matter, just curious.

2.0, 2.0 Sp1, 2.0 sp2, 3.0, 3.0 sp1, 3.5, 3.5 sp1… all these versions of the frame work use the same version of the CLR/CLI. All the languages compile to the same set of CIL instructions.

with the realease of the .net framework 4.0 a new version of the CLR will be released.

Main changes are realted with dynamic languages integration, generics (generics covariance) and Code Access Security (will be replaced with a new security model - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/ee677170.aspx).

Yes, I think the release rate of new versions of the framework will be greater than the release of new versions of the CLR, but it might be that with 5.0 version of the framework a new runtime is released also :stuck_out_tongue: