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I am trying to upgrade to a new Surface Pro. My old one runs VS 2012 along with StingRay Studio. I compile software which I would like to maintain. I am retired, and Roguewave (makers of Stingray) tell me they want $4300.00 for me to upgrade to their latest version. Since I am NOT Developing anymore, I do not want to spend that kind of $$
So... On my new Surface Pro. Can I install An earlier version of VS that I can try to make the other libraries work??
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Hello @John Kibler ,
VS 2012 is still available for downloading from here: Download VS 2012. And it should be available to be installed on Windows 10 and Windows 11.
You can install it on your new Surface Pro, but it’s hard to say that it will make all the other libraries work. Please kindly check Michael’s answer and let us know if you have any further concerns.
Best Regards,
Tianyu
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VS 2012 left support in Jan of this year. So officially you are in unsupported territory. As far as whether it would work or not, install it and find out. Worse case is it doesn't run. On newer OS versions you're likely to run into issues. Even on Win 8 it didn't run correctly in all cases. Furthermore since it is no longer supported any features that required online services may no longer work. Account settings come to mind.
I know nothing about Stingray Studio but a quick google indicates you're probably not running a supported version of them either since they only list VS 2017 as the oldest version supported. So you may run into issues installing that software as well.