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Can Visual Studio Express 2012 produce programs to be used on XP?

Homerboy

Homerboy

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I'm looking to install VS 2012 Express to develop a few, simple desktop applications to be used in our office. However I have a mixed environment of Windows 7 and XP.

Do the executables VS 2012 Express produces function on XP machines as well as Win7? I know that the compiler needs to be on Windows 7 or greater, which is fine as that is what I am running.

Thanks in advance.
 
Depends on what language you're talking about. Anything but c++ I don't see why it wouldn't run. For C++ programs, they are releasing an update to the MSVCRT that will allow you to target both xp and later. Right now its only Vista and later.
 
For C#/F#/VB.Net, it depends what version of .Net you target. I think XP supports up to 3.5 of the .Net framework? I dunno, should be easy to find out though.
 
Absolution75 said:
Depends on what language you're talking about. Anything but c++ I don't see why it wouldn't run. For C++ programs, they are releasing an update to the MSVCRT that will allow you to target both xp and later. Right now its only Vista and later.
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Yeah. After I posted, I did some digging, and I saw that pending update. I'd probably use VB.net as previous VS Basic 2010 programs I have done are in VB as well.

In reality I could just program with 2010 Express, but I figured if 2012 is out in the wild, may as well "upgrade" to that if I can.
 
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