Installing Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate on Windows 8
.net, .net-4.5, visual-studio, visual-studio-2012, windows-8
Solution
This solution worked for me for at least Express 2012 for Web on 32-bit Windows 8 Release Preview:
- Find HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\NET Framework Setup\NDP\v4\Full node in the regedit
- Right click on the node, choose Permissions, then click "Advanced" button and change owner of this node to Administrators and then click OK and give Full Control permission to Administrators
- Change the value of "Version" parameter to "4.5.50709"
I found this instruction at http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vssetup/thread/e968a2e7-a996-4492-b0c6-da94a1403cb6 . It also contains 64-bit windows registry path.
Problem
While trying to install the Visual Studio 2012 ultimate trial on Windows 8 Release Preview I got the following error message The .Net Framework installed on this machine does not meet the minimum required version: 4.5.50709. So I tried installing the required .net framework version, but that gave me the following error Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5 is already a part of this operating system. You do not need to install the .NET Framework 4.5 redistributable. I am running the Windows 8 release preview on a 32-bit Intel Core2Duo system, with Visual Studio Express already installed.