Monday, August 23, 2010

Installing Visual Studio 2010 on an x64 system

When trying to install Visual Studio 2010 RC1 on my Windows 7 x64 system, I kept getting an error that the license key was not valid.

Now, even more confusing than the fact that this install did not require a license key was the glaring problem that it didn't actually ASK for a license key.

After much digging for an answer to this issue, I wrote it off to bad error handling and made the assumption that this version of studio was not compantible with the x64 system.

After a little more downloading and testing, I found that Visual Studio 2010 Premium installed just fine on x64.

I hope this helps others looking to upgrade.


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