Has anyone managed to get Visual Studio 2003 running on Windows 7?

Question

Yes, I know... I could set up a virtual machine running XP. Unfortunately our build environment is such that we need to be running VC2003, 2005 and 2008 concurrently and it

Answer 1

I got Visual Studio .NET 2003 Working just fine on my HP EliteBook Workstation 8760W with an I7 processor and 12GB of RAM running Windows 7 Professional 64 bit by doing some advanced steps. They go as follows:

1. Install FrontPage 2002 Server Extensions for IIS 7.0.
2. Install Visual Studio .Net 2003. Just skip when the installer command you to configure Frontpage 2002 Server Extensions.
3. Install .Net Framework 1.1 Service Pack 1 (download here).
4. Go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager. Highlight your machine, then double-click on ISAPI and CGI Restrictions. Change setting for ASP .NET v1.1.4322 to Allowed.

Then it will always show an alert with the following message

This program has compatibility issues...

just ignore that. Also, don't put it in compatibility mode in the properties of the IDE.