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• Moritz Leutenecker commented  ·  June 27, 2012 3:22 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Hi Doug, thank you for generalising the title. As heard from many other developers I really appreciate the decision to allow VS 11 native c++ (MFC, ATL ...) apps to run on Windows XP... :-) For me as a MFC developer it would be extremely interesting to get back the old eVC MFC ARM support to write new WinRT desktop MFC apps, maybe with a special ARM ressource saving codesigning certificate for those apps, just as a suggestion. Greetings...

• Anonymous commented  ·  June 15, 2012 12:34 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  It has been announced that a post-RTM update to VS2012 will bring back XP support!

  -> http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2012/06/15/10320645.aspx

  Thank you Microsoft!

• Dustin Halstead commented  ·  June 4, 2012 11:31 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  You've got my vote. There needs to be more backwards compatibility supported.
  Let's face it, the only decent versions of Windows are XP and 7 (thus far). So Microsoft needs to support the only two successes that they've had.
  The same should apply for C# as well.

• AdminVisual Studio UV Site Admin (Admin, Microsoft) commented  ·  June 1, 2012 8:15 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Hi Moritz - I updated the title of this item, per a user's suggestion, so that it would give a little more visibility to the suggestion.

  Doug Turnure - Visual Studio PM.

• Ted commented  ·  May 28, 2012 5:02 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  XPSupport wrappers updated to version 1.09 - now includes x64 and non-Unicode support!

  http://wp.me/p2jBcE-1K

• blah blah commented  ·  May 27, 2012 4:17 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  This is better than any late night show. I'm laughing my *** off at MS!

• OPALOCKAGOON commented  ·  May 27, 2012 12:10 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Trying to kill Chrome, Firefox, ... with all these idiotic decisions?

• Anonymous commented  ·  May 22, 2012 11:25 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  More bad news: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/tz7t5/visual_c_compilers_and_c_runtime_removed_from/

  C++ compiler removed from Windows 8 SDK...

• Anonymous commented  ·  May 22, 2012 10:27 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  People, please let Stephen Teixeira (Visual Studio product manager) know what you think: stevetei@microsoft.com

• Ted commented  ·  May 19, 2012 6:07 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  new statement about XP targeting by Microsoft: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2012/05/18/a-look-ahead-at-the-visual-studio-11-product-lineup-and-platform-support.aspx

  "Separately, we are evaluating options for C++ that would enable developers to directly target XP without requiring a side-by-side installation of Visual Studio 2010 and intend to deliver this update post-RTM."

  - still evaluating
  - "directly" target XP
  - post-RTM

  it's official, no XP support in RTM VC11

• Juules commented  ·  May 13, 2012 7:52 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Please vote: https://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/741881/visual-studio-11-and-xp-targeting

• Ted commented  ·  May 5, 2012 2:35 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  XPSupport wrappers updated to version 1.06 - now includes XP SP2 support! http://wp.me/p2jBcE-1C

• Jakub S commented  ·  May 3, 2012 4:58 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Steve Teixeira (PM at Microsoft) posted this:

  "As Stephen Toub said, the team is continuing to work through the matter of XP targeting for C++ in Dev11, and we will be able to make a definitive statement about this in a few weeks. Please stay tuned, and I appreciate your patience!"

  Hopefully they are not bull**itting and really are trying to get XP support into VC11 RTM. In any case, keep up the pressure! We can't stop yet.

  (source: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/somasegar/archive/2012/04/30/devlabs-c-cloud-services-and-you.aspx)

• Yuchen Deng commented  ·  April 29, 2012 10:02 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Microsoft, do the Right Thing.

• Paul commented  ·  April 27, 2012 8:18 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  See what happens when you use a 'proper' language. Should have stuck to VB like the rest of us. ;-)

• Anonymous commented  ·  April 26, 2012 8:04 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  We will have to pass VS11 (and possibly whatever follows it) without XP targeting support.

• Maybe... commented  ·  April 23, 2012 10:49 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Fingers crossed: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/vcblog/archive/2012/04/18/10295093.aspx#10296691

• Anonymous commented  ·  April 23, 2012 5:01 a.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Yet another vote that support for XP is absolutely required, my team is not going to be able to use VC11 if it is going to be incompatible with XP. Multi-targeting? Pfff... Why upgrade to VC11 if we wouldn't be able to use the new toolset... Improvements to the IDE are welcome, but we aren't going to upgrade just for them.

  (As a side note, I am not sure how exactly Microsoft intends to use this site. How many voices are needed to make them (re)consider something? 10? 100? 1000? There's likely no definite number for this... So, why have the counters then? /shrug)

• Anonymous commented  ·  April 22, 2012 12:13 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  Based on the number of votes on the two other top C++ items (Speed up work on VC++, Better C++11 support), which have ~2500 votes each, it is pretty safe to assume that over 50% of C++ developers are have voted on this issue. Microsoft, fix your mistake.

• Ted commented  ·  April 21, 2012 2:35 p.m.  ·  Flag as inappropriateFlag as inappropriate  ·  Delete

  there's also a good discussion going on at reddit

  http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/repjr/binaries_cc_built_with_visual_studio_11_do_not/