When attempting to start, Windows 7 complains that Visual Studio 2005 is incompatible with Windows 7 and offers me to search online for a solution. It comes up with a link to Visual Studio 2005 SP1 for Windows Vista and Windows 7, but when I download it (VS80sp1-KB932232-X86-ENU.exe) and try to run it, it refuses to install saying that. We released Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 earlier today. This Service Pack addresses a range of issues that were found through customer and partner feedback as well as our own internal testing. Many of these issues were reported by you and I thank you for taking the time to report them to.
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I'm trying to install Visual Studio 2005 in Windows 7. When attempting to start, Windows 7 complains that Visual Studio 2005 is incompatible with Windows 7 and offers me to search online for a solution. It comes up with a link to Visual Studio 2005 SP1 for Windows Vista and Windows 7, but when I download it (VS80sp1-KB932232-X86-ENU.exe) and try to run it, it refuses to install saying that
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You need to ignore the warning and install VS 2005, then SP1 and then the VS2005-Vista update. Three installs.
Visual Studio 2005 might not be compatible with Windows 7:
Operating System
Windows 2000 Service Pack 4, Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1, or Windows Vista3,4
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For a 64-bit computer, the requirements are as follows:
Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 1 x64 editions
Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
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protected by Ivo Flipse♦Jan 13 '11 at 9:18
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