Hi all, I have my Windows 7 Enterprise installed and I need to install Visual Studio .NET 2003 in my machine as well as I need to maintain and support customers' projects which were mainly developed by using .NET 2003, 1.1 framework.

I am now facing error during the installationsaying that it is not compatible with my system! I havetried a solution recommended in forum, which is to install Visual Studio .NET 2003 in Windows Virtual PC 2007 + XP Mode. It was my nightwarewhen I found out thatthe Virtualizationis not supportedin my hardwareand therefore I cant make use of XPM!

Please help before I made the last approach, which is todowngrade and have my Vista Business back!

Thanks in advance!

There are two meanings of "unsupported."

1. Software will not install or will install but won't run acceptably.
2. Software will install and will run acceptably but if you encounter any problems they will not be patched by the software vendor (e.g.,similar to Silverlight's working in Google Chrome but not being officially supported).

Re: Vista I thought the situation with VS 2003 was 2? The OP writes as though he's had it working with Vista but not with Win 7?

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Kevin

Hi NewWorldMan,

Thank you for your reply.

I did some research further on this issue. It seems that Visual Studio 2003 can be installed on Vista.
Please check: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb188244.aspx
However, we can find the following note from this document:

"While Visual Studio 2003 is not supported on Windows Vista if you choose to run it then we advise you to do the following:"

Thus, based on my understanding, as stable development environments, it would be better to apply Visual Studio 2003 on XP instead of Vista or Windows 7. The situation is similar with the scenario 2 that you mentioned. :)
If OP wants to install it on Vista, it can be installed.

Best regards,
Yichun Chen

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Hi DT_LSB,

Thank you for your post.

As far as I know, for the earlier versions before Visual Studio 2005 - Visual Studio .NET 2002/2003, they are not supported as development environments on Windows Vista. This also applied for Windows 7.
Please check: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2006/09/26/772250.aspx
That's why we can receive this error message when we install the early versions on Windows 7.

To maintain your application via Visual Studio 2003, you had better to try Windows XP. Sorry for inconvenience.

Hope this helps. If you have any concern, please feel free to let me know.

Best regards,
Yichun Chen

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There are two meanings of "unsupported."

1. Software will not install or will install but won't run acceptably.
2. Software will install and will run acceptably but if you encounter any problems they will not be patched by the software vendor (e.g.,similar to Silverlight's working in Google Chrome but not being officially supported).

Re: Vista I thought the situation with VS 2003 was 2? The OP writes as though he's had it working with Vista but not with Win 7?

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Kevin

Hi NewWorldMan,

Thank you for your reply.

I did some research further on this issue. It seems that Visual Studio 2003 can be installed on Vista.
Please check: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb188244.aspx
However, we can find the following note from this document:

"While Visual Studio 2003 is not supported on Windows Vista if you choose to run it then we advise you to do the following:"

Thus, based on my understanding, as stable development environments, it would be better to apply Visual Studio 2003 on XP instead of Vista or Windows 7. The situation is similar with the scenario 2 that you mentioned. :)
If OP wants to install it on Vista, it can be installed.

Best regards,
Yichun Chen

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Hi DT_LSB,

This is the steps I take to successfully install Visual Studio .Net 2003 on my Windows 7 Enterprise machine :

1) Install FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions for IIS 7.0 (download here).
2) Install Visual Studio .Net 2003. Just skip when the installer command you to configure Frontpage 2002 Server Extension.
3) Install .Net Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 (download here).
4) Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager. Highlight your machine, then double-click on ISAPI and CGI Restrictions. Change setting for ASP .NET v1.1.4322 to Allowed.

Maybe there are some unnecessary steps, but it works for me. I hope this it works for you too.