Installing Visual Studio 2010 Express on Windows 10

Continuing the discussion from Unable to Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2010:

Today I was finally able to get Visual Studio 2010 Express installed on Windows 10, and working for compiling the SketchUp Ruby C Examples repo. Here’s a brief outline of the steps I went through. Your results may very.

Order is important.

####1. Download & Install VS 2010 Express Edition

Download ISO (source)

The download is an .iso image which needs to be burned to a CD or mounted as a virtual disc drive before it can be installed.

####2. Download & Install WIndows SDK 7.1

Download

However, the SDK would not install and I could not continue until I performed this registry tweak. Do this at your own risk.

Here is the problem dialog:

####3. Download & Install Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1

Download VS10sp1-KB983509.exe or ISO

####4. Visual C++ 2010 Service Pack 1 Compiler Update for the Windows SDK 7.1

Download VC-Compiler-KB2519277.exe

Finally, for the x64 target only I had to set the Platform Toolset from vc100 to Windows7.1SDK. This was due to the linker not finding “kernel32.lib”, which looks like a simple path issue, although I haven’t looked into it yet.

Hello, SketchUp!

Hope this helps someone.