Fortran 10.1 compatibility with Visual Studio 2005 in Windows 7 running on a Mac

[bill_kuhn]

I have been running Visual Fortran 10.1 on a PC under Windows XP for a few years, through Visual Studio 2005, which was provided with and installed from the same installation disk. Recently I got a Mac Pro and installed Windows 7 on it using Parallels. I installed the same software (same installation disk) in the the virtual Windows 7 and got what at first looked like the same installation, but the "build" option does not appear on the menu after adding several .f90 files to a newly created project, and in creating the project only a default template is available--i.e., not the "console application" template I have use to get started previously. It appears that after installing the same software from the same disk but under virtual Windows 7 on a Mac, Visual Studio 2005 is not integrated properly with the Fortran Compiler, as though it does not "know" the Fortran Compiler exists.

I ran repair tool 2005. First, I got the following message from Parallels:

Your virtual machine is in coherence, which makes your Windows integrated with your Mac.

Then I got the following DOE output from running the repair tool within Windows 7 under Parallels:

Visual Studio 2005 Installed at C:\\Program Files\\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\\
Successfully unregistered VFAVwin.dll
Successfully unregistered VFFortSvc.dll
Successfully unregistered VFProjConvert.dll
Successfully unregistered VFToolOpt.dll
Successfully unregistered VFProj.dll
Successfully registered VFAVwin.dll
Successfully registered VFFortSvc.dll
Successfully registered VFProjConvert.dll
Successfully registered VFToolOpt.dll
Successfully registered VFProj.dll
Running devenv setup please wait
All DLLs successfully registered
Press any key to exit program

--Bill Kuhn

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Hmm. Well, we don't claim that 10,1 supports Windows 7, though offhand I don't know of a reason it would not work. We do not test installing in virtual machines on a Mac either. And to top that, Microsoft doesn't support use of VS2005 on Windows 7.

I suppose what I would suggest is to uninstall Intel Fortran completely, deletet the "Intel Fortran" folder under Microsoft Visual Studio 8, and reinstall. Perhaps before you reinstall, install VS2005 SP1 and the "Vista" compatibility update as directed in the Fortran release notes.

It could be that the VM is somehow interfering with regstry access.

[bill_kuhn]

Thank you. I will try your suggestions and also consider backward compatibility of Windows 7 to Windows XPvis-a-vis running VS2005 asa possible culprit.