VISUAL STUDIO 2005 future support in future Windows 11 versions

CASSIGNOL Christophe 20 Reputation points
2023-11-10T10:13:47.14+00:00

Hello

This is more a question rather than an issue on Visual Studio 2005, and I don't actually know where to ask the question.

We have some applications developped with Visual Studio 2005 in 32bits and we would like to know how long will they still be running on Windows future version ?

We are still working with these applications and install them on Windows 10 LTSC up to now without issues, but we will soon need to install it on future versions of Windows. Will there still be working on next version of Windows (11... 12... etc) ?

Thank you for your reply.

Christophe

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  1. Anna Xiu-MSFT 31,056 Reputation points Microsoft External Staff
    2023-11-10T13:29:07.3266667+00:00

    Hi @CASSIGNOL Christophe

    Welcome to Microsoft Q&A! 

    According to Microsoft’s application compatibility promise, it is allowed to install the VS2005 on Windows 11 or the future version of Windows. 

    But it is noted that the support has ended for all Visual Studio 2005 editions. We can't guarantee that you won't run into problems later. You can view the product lifecycle of Visual Studio 2005.

    We recommend you migrate your applications to a newer version of Visual Studio.   

    Sincerely,

    Anna


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  1. Bruce (SqlWork.com) 78,086 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2023-11-12T01:55:29.0466667+00:00

    Vs 2005 is out of support. It most likely will run on future versions of windows, but there is no guarantee. Any security patch may break it.

    but you should be able to run in a Vm running an old windows version.

    a bigger issue is if the apps you build with vs 2005 stop working on future versions of windows. You may have few options.

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