What must I do to get VS2012 RC running on Windows 8 Preview?

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I have gleaned that I can't mix RTM and RC or Preview in either direction, so to speak, but apparently VS2012 RC should run on Windows 8 Preview. I have Win8 running in VirtualBox, and when I try and install VS2012 the installer just stops working, with that helpful error message, "VS has stopped working".

Is there some additional prep I need? Has someone got these two running together, on VirtualBox?

Posted 25-Aug-12 1:08am

Brady Kelly

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Espen Harlinn · Answer 1 · 2012-08-25T01:43:00

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Why not use Windows 8 RTM? Windows 8 RTM now available to developers[^]

A little more work now, but continuing to use the Windows 8 RC will probably lead to all sorts of grief down the road.

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Espen Harlinn

Posted 25-Aug-12 1:43am

Espen Harlinn

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Brady Kelly 25-Aug-12 8:14am

RTM is a big fat scary download in addition to the VS RTM download, and I am on expensive 3G bandwidth.

Espen Harlinn 25-Aug-12 8:18am

Ouch! my condolences - doesn't sound much fun in this day and age, where everyone is expected to have access to unlimited bandwidth ...

Brady Kelly 25-Aug-12 8:22am

Quite common in SA, but I'm boarding with my mom until next week, and she doesn't have adsl. Recently most adsl packages have unlimited bandwidth though, so here's hoping for improvement at my new digs.

Espen Harlinn 25-Aug-12 8:24am

Yepp :-D