Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Visual Studio 2005 compatibility issue with Windows 7...

After installing VS 2005 on Windows 7, I got this error message when try to run it for the first time

"Visual Studio 2005 SP1 requires an update for Windows Vista"

Solution:
Download SP1 Update here: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=6366078 and run the installer in administrator mode.

Tip:
If you are trying to debug web projects, you need to make sure that you go to the Add/Remove Windows Components in Control Panel and install the IIS6 Compatibility with IIS7 option, otherwise you won’t have much luck.

Note:
Tested on Windows 7 Professional 32bit

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