A question about product contents of Visual Fortran Composer XE.

[alanpark]

According to 'Intel Visual Fortran Composer XE 2011 for Windows* Installation Guide and Release Notes'
It includes 'Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Shell and Libraries (not included with Student or Evaluation licenses)'.

What is the difference between 'Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Shell and Libraries' and 'Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Standard, Professional'

Ultimately, I need a Intel Visual Fortran 10.1 or 11.1. andMicrosoft Visual Studio 2008 Standard, professional or Team System Edition (with C++ component installed) to use a engineering CAE software, Abaqus(from Dassault systemes SIMULIA). If I buy 'Intel Visual Fortran Composer XE 2011 for Windows', Can I use those products?

[mecej4]

If your purpose is to develop Fortran subroutines that are to be called from Abaqus, the Visual Fortran product will suffice. Note that the current edition is 12.1, and that the current IDE is VS2010, rather than the 11.1/2008 versions that you listed. If, after installing them, you find that the newer editions will not suffice, you will be able to download and install the older versions.

Alternatively, after purchasing (or choosing the free trial) and registering the product you may download and install the older version (11.1).

Note that, either way, you will not have a C/C++ compiler as a result of installing Visual Fortran. Find out whether that is something that you can accept.

[TimP]

Typically, when adding user coded Fortran functions to an application such as this which uses VS2008 and depends on a full Microsoft development library installation, it is necessary to install one of the VS versions specified. Both ifort 11.1 and current ifort will work with VS2008.
As mecej4 said, once you purchase and register the ifort license, you are entitled to download and use any version of ifort released prior to the expiration of your license. There's a good chance that current ifort will work, but the vendor would likely ask you to use a version in the specified range in order to receive support.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Visual Studio Shell is just the development environment. We add enough of the Microsoft tools and libraries to build and debug Fortran applications, but you don't get any MS language compilers such as VisualC++.