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John Smith
John Smith

Reputation: 1793

visual studio 2013 on windows xp

Is it possible to run Visual Studio 2013 on Windows XP?

I heard that it is not possible to install .NET Framework 4.5 on Windows XP. What if I want to use Visual Studio 2013 for .NET 4.0 on Windows XP?

Is this possible?

Upvotes: 16

Views: 34801

Answers (5)

Paul K.
Paul K.

Reputation: 89

.NET 4.5 requires Windows Vista SP2, Server 2008 or newer.

Upvotes: 0

Erdogan Kurtur
Erdogan Kurtur

Reputation: 3685

You cannot install required runtime, so you cannot install Visual Studio 2013. But you are always free to use a virtual machine. Install it on VM and run VM on XP.

Upvotes: 0

Saravana
Saravana

Reputation: 40662

As others have said, it's not possible to install Visual Studio 2012 or 2013 on Windows XP. However if you really need .NET 4.5 features on Windows XP install Mono 3 and use MonoDevelop.

Upvotes: 3

slfan
slfan

Reputation: 9129

It is not possible. Even Visual Studio 2012 requires Windows 7.

However you can still develop applications for Windows XP when targeting .NET 4.0 (or older). With Visual Studio 2013 you can develop applications from .NET 2.0 upwards.

.NET 4.5 requires at least Windows Vista to run. As .NET 4.5 replaces .NET 4.0 (it's not a side-by-side installation as previous .NET versions), you might have some incompatibilty problems if you target .NET 4.0. See this question for more information.

Upvotes: 4

Vivek Jain
Vivek Jain

Reputation: 3889

It is not possible. Visual Studio 2013 natively supports .Net v4.5, which does not support Windows XP.

For .Net 4.0 on Windows XP, you may try to use Visual Studio 2010 with .Net 4.0. I am not sure if this will work, but I would suggest you to go for Windows 7 for .Net 4.0 and Windows 8 for .Net 4.5.

Upvotes: 8

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