{"id":183,"date":"2012-08-23T16:20:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T16:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/heaths\/2012\/08\/23\/visual-studio-2012-rtm-will-not-install-on-pre-release-versions-of-windows-8\/"},"modified":"2019-02-17T15:29:29","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T22:29:29","slug":"visual-studio-2012-rtm-will-not-install-on-pre-release-versions-of-windows-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/visual-studio-2012-rtm-will-not-install-on-pre-release-versions-of-windows-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Visual Studio 2012 RTM will not install on pre-release versions of Windows 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Symptom<\/p>\n<p>Customers installing Visual Studio 2012 RTM on pre-release versions of Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 may see the following error after launching the setup application:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The .Net Framework installed on this machine does not meet the minimum required version: 4.5.50709.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a blocking error and only allows the install to be canceled.<\/p>\n<h3>Cause<\/h3>\n<p>Visual Studio 2012 RTM is not supported on pre-release versions of&nbsp;Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012.<\/p>\n<h3>Resolution<\/h3>\n<p>To install Visual Studio 2012 RTM, you will need to install it on Windows 7 SP1, Server 2008 R2 SP1, or install VS2012 RTM on Windows 8 or Server 2012 RTM. If you are an MSDN or TechNet subscriber, you can get Win8 now from the following links:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/subscriptions\/downloads\/\">MSDN Subscriber Downloads<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/subscriptions\/downloads\/\">TechNet Subscriber Downloads<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you are not an MSDN or TechNet subscriber, you can <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/RH9cIf\">download a 90-day evaluation of Windows 8 Enterprise<\/a> to make sure your software or hardware is ready for the Windows 8 launch.<\/p>\n<p>You may also continue to use pre-release versions of VS2012 on supported pre-release versions of Win8, such as VS2012 RC on the Win8 Release Preview (RP).<\/p>\n<h3>More Information<\/h3>\n<p>See the system requirements on the <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/p\/?LinkId=240162\">download page<\/a> for Visual Studio 2012 for more information.<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symptom Customers installing Visual Studio 2012 RTM on pre-release versions of Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 may see the following error after launching the setup application: The .Net Framework installed on this machine does not meet the minimum required version: 4.5.50709. This is a blocking error and only allows the install to be canceled. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":3843,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20,21,45,54],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-installation","tag-kb","tag-visual-studio","tag-vs2012"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Symptom Customers installing Visual Studio 2012 RTM on pre-release versions of Windows 8 or Windows Server 2012 may see the following error after launching the setup application: The .Net Framework installed on this machine does not meet the minimum required version: 4.5.50709. This is a blocking error and only allows the install to be canceled. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/setup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}