NET Framework 4.0 will also run on Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Applications written in C++/CLI which target the.

The static and dynamic link libraries for the CRT, ConCRT/PPL, STL, and MFC have been updated in-place to add runtime support for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. Only executables built with this platform toolset are supported to run on Windows XP, but those same executables will also run on Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8. The v110_xp toolset also sets useful defaults such as a compatible linker subsystem version for downlevel targeting. This new platform toolset points to a repackaged version of the Windows 7 SDK shipped in Visual Studio 2010 instead of the Windows 8 SDK, but uses the same Visual Studio 2012 compiler. In order to target Windows XP, switch from the default v110 toolset to the newly introduced v110_xp toolset inside your project’s property pages. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the Windows XP targeting experience, the level of C++ runtime support, and noteworthy differences from the default experience shipped in Visual Studio 2012 at RTM. This feature has been included in Visual Studio 2012 Update 1. In June, we announced enhanced targeting for Windows XP using the Visual Studio 2012 C++ compiler and libraries.

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