Can Visual Studio Express run from USB drive?

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Published on 2010-05-20T19:50:35Z Indexed on 2010/05/20 20:10 UTC
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Using an arbitrary Windows machine (2000/XP or later), I can

  1. install Eclipse CDT to a USB drive

  2. move that USB drive onto a different Windows machine--one that does not have any form of Eclipse software already installed, and potentially a different version of Windows (but 2000/XP or later)

  3. use Eclipse to develop application-level C/C++ programs on that second machine (and that includes using the debugger), running directly from the USB drive without copying anything to C:.

I can do all this without having Administrator privileges on either machine.

I can do the same with NetBeans, and with several other IDEs that support C/C++ development.

Is it possible to do this with any version of Visual Studio Express?

If not, can you explain the technical reason(s) this doesn't work?

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