Does IVF 9.0 work with Visual Studio C++ Standard ?

[lmc]

Or does IVF 9.0 require Visual Studio C++ Professional ? The difference is $100 for the standard vs $800 for the professional version.

The reason why I ask it is that we have very little c code in our application. I am the only c coder. We are thinking about transitioning from Open Watcom C/F77 to VC++/IVF. I hate to buy Visual Studio Professional for the other 2 programmers when they just dont need it for other than the IDE.

Thanks,
Lynn

[TimP]

Steve has made several posts on this subject in this past. It has become difficult enough to search his advice that I wish we would put up an FAQ. As I recall, even the cheap Visual Studio, which doesn't support optimization in the C compiler, is fully functional for ifort.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Actually, it's perhaps easier to read the System Requirements as listed on our web site. Quoting (with emphasis added):

One of the following Microsoft development products must be installed:

* Microsoft Visual C++* .NET 2002 or 2003, Standard edition or above
* Microsoft Visual Studio* .NET 2002 or 2003, any edition, with Visual C++ component installed

There is no "Standard Edition" of Visual Studio.

And while I'm here, please note that it says "2002 or 2003" - Visual Studio 2005, currently in beta, is not supported (and won't work for IDE integration) in 9.0. We'll add support for that after the retail release of VS2005.

Message Edited by sblionel on 08-04-2005 07:42 PM

[lmc]

> One of the following Microsoft development products must be installed:
>
> * Microsoft Visual C++* .NET 2002 or 2003, Standard edition or above
> * Microsoft Visual Studio* .NET 2002 or 2003, any edition, with Visual C++ component installed

Cool !

> There is no "Standard Edition" of Visual Studio.

True ! My bad !

Thanks,
Lynn

[dave_frank]

I think I saw some statement somewhere that my VC++ 6 which works with my current CVF 6 could be used with IVFif user restricted IVF use to command line compiles thats wrong, right?