Run Visual Studio on Microsoft Surface?

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Dmitry Isaev picture Dmitry Isaev · Jul 4, 2012 · Viewed 43k times · Source

It seems like Windows 8 is all about developers. But I didn't realize a small thing: can Visual Studio 2012 be launched on Intel-based Surface, like on my Win8-driven, Intel-based notebook?

Hardware specs are absolutely enough, the whole ideology looks like leading to "programming everywhere", there are a few simple IDEs even for iPad, we'll certainly have some dev tools when Ubuntu will be installed on Surface. But what about Visual Studio itself? Is there any info?

It's not very comfortable to develop everything on Surface, but sometimes the idea touches you in the bus, and it's nice to have a full-featured tool with all your current projects at your hand.

Answer

SLaks picture SLaks · Jul 4, 2012

The Intel-based Surface can run arbitrary legacy Windows applications, including Visual Studio.
However, the screen may prove to be annoyingly small.

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