Will MS Visual Studio 2012 work with Windows Vista?

Question

I run windows vista business and want to try MS Visual Studio Express 2012. Are they compatible? Where is the compatibility list?

Answer 1

At least not officially: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/11/en-us/products/compatibility

Answer 2

You can not install VS2012 on Windows Vista.

You will be able to target Vista with VS2012 but not with the public beta. The beta redistributable, confusingly, used to install on Vista but did not work there.

There is no way of debugging or profiling applications installed on Vistas in VS2012.

This applies to both managed and unmanaged applications.