Is the Casablanca preview supposed to work with Visual Studio Express?

Question

I have Visual Studio 2010 Express installed, and when I run Casablanca_setup100.msi I get an error message.

"This version of Casablanca requires Visual Studio 2010 to be installed!"

Is this expected?

Answer 1

Philip,

We did not test Casablanca on VS Express, so we don’t support it. That said, I suspect that except for Azure deployment, most things should just work.

For the next release, we’re thinking about having a zip file with the SDK. You would unpack it into a directory of your choice, set the INCLUDE and LIB directories as needed and then you’re good to go. Would that work for you?

Artur Laksberg
Casablanca Team

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Artur Laksberg - MSFT

Answer 2

I'm glad it wasn't a design decision to exclude express :)

A zip file would work just fine. It'd be nice to be able to get the current release as a zip file, just so I can play with the library without having to wait for the next release. I'll understand if this can't be done though.

Thanks for the answer.