Installing Visual Studio 2010 RC on Win7 - Compatibility Error
In preparation for MIX10 this year I'm getting all the latest and greatest dev tools set up on my work machine. I downloaded the Visual Studio 2010 RC .ISO files and burned them to a DVD (this is my usual process). What happened next threw me for a loop which is why I'm posting this here.
When I went to install VS2010 RC from the DVD I received a curious error saying that Visual Studio could not be installed in Compatibility Mode. After searching for a bit I found a blog post talking about compatibility mode in Windows 7.
"Compatibility mode allows a older program written for an earlier versions of Windows to possibly run in Windows 7. You can also use Compatibility mode to always have a program to Run as an administrator."
Apparently there is a setting in Windows 7 64-bit that runs media from external resources using this compatibility mode by default.
The work-around is simple enough. Browse to the files on your DVD, copy them to your hard drive and then run the setup.exe from your hard drive. This solved the problem for me and I hope this helps others get VS2010 RC1 installed quickly and easily.
EDIT: I went back to try to re-create this error and post a screen shot of the error screen, but after it started working correctly from the hard drive, subsequent attempts to install from the DVD worked as expected, no more errors.
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