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John Smith picture John Smith · Sep 8, 2013 · Viewed 33.9k times · Source

Is it possible to run Visual Studio 2013 on Windows XP?

I heard that it is not possible to install .NET Framework 4.5 on Windows XP. What if I want to use Visual Studio 2013 for .NET 4.0 on Windows XP?

Is this possible?

Answer

Vivek Jain picture Vivek Jain · Sep 8, 2013

It is not possible. Visual Studio 2013 natively supports .Net v4.5, which does not support Windows XP.

For .Net 4.0 on Windows XP, you may try to use Visual Studio 2010 with .Net 4.0. I am not sure if this will work, but I would suggest you to go for Windows 7 for .Net 4.0 and Windows 8 for .Net 4.5.

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