Visual Fortran for VS2008 Student Edition

[Matias_J_]

I have a student version of Visual Studio 2008 downloaded from Microsoft DreamSpark. 

I need to run an modify a fortran 77 version and include some new codes to this old version without modifying all the old code of it. I tried with free online compilers but apparently they are not able to deal with old and new fortran combined. 

A colleague was able to do it with Visual Fortran on VS08. Which academic product should I buy to get Visual Fortran running on my version of visual studio? 

I was thinking on buying the Intel® Parallel Studio XE Professional Edition for Fortran, but need to be sure that it will work before spending that money

[TimP]

Intel compilers up through 2013 sp1 worked with Visual Studio 2008 Standard (service packs recommended).  It's probably worth while, at academic prices, to get a newer Visual Studio Pro which will work with current ifort, although your ifort license would entitle you to use the older version.  The Fortran compiler is the same regardless of which bundle you choose.

I suppose you can find Fortran compilers for Windows which don't support much of the more recent standards, but gfortran is a good up to date free Fortran which supports as many past extensions as any.  If you want compatibility with Visual Studio Pro, that is a reason for choosing a commercial compiler.

[JohnNichols]

Tim:

The other reason for picking INTEL is of course Steve, aka Dr. Fortran.

JMN

[Steven_L_Intel1]

As Tim says, the latest version of Intel Visual Fortran drops support for VS2008. However, if you buy the Academic or Commercial license for Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015 Composer Edition, you can either use the included VS2010-based Fortran development environment, or download and install the previous 2013 SP1 version (see here.) However, if you buy our Intel® Software Development Suite Student Edition, this doesn't include the VS2010-based environment as it is assumed you have access to Visual Studio from Microsoft.

I don't know what exactly is in the "student version" of VS2008 you have. We support the Professional Edition or higher of Visual Studio.