Visual Studio fails to open the project

Question

Hi, ALL,

I recently created a Virtual Machine for Windows 10 (didn't use 90-days trial). I didn't register it as I don't have a key.

Then I tried to install MSVC 2017 Community for C++ desktop application - the installation failed.

I was able to install it with the help from here.

After the successful install I remove the environment variable and rebooted.

Then I tried to open a solution for my project and the IDE just hanged.

I tried to put that variable back, reboot and then open the same project - it still hangs.

I know the project is fine since I can successfully open it in my actual Windows 8.1 + MSVC 2017 laptop.

So my question is - how do I work with this? What did I do wrong? Does MSVC 2017 not compatible with Win10?

Thank you.

Answer 1

So, what?

No one knows whether MSVC 2017 can run on Windows 10?

Or maybe I can't open 32-bit solution in this setup?