Visual Studio 2012 Express is suddenly “incompatible with this version of Windows”?

Question

I\'m running Visual Studio Express 2012 on Windows 7. I\'ve been running it with no problems for several months now.

Last Friday, when I shut down my PC, a lot of Windo

Answer 1

I've just installed VS2012 at home and came across the same problem. The 1st solution I found is that webdeploy doesn't work after Oct 2013 and I should install Web deploy V3.0.

Done that, no joy. I let Win7 search for compatibility solution on-line and it found an update patch (KB2781514) which did work.

This is the same solution as mentioned before by @John M.

Should've looked here first, just posting this again if someone comes across this again these days..

Thanks to all other users who helped with this thread.