VS2010 on XP SP3 64 bit

We are soon to get VS2010 and according to the link below, Microsoft do not support VS2010 on XP x64.

http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/products开发者_开发问答/2010-editions/professional/system-requirements

Does anyone have XP 64bit running VS2010?

I am not interested in 64bit version of VS (I am wanting to install a 32bit version of VS2010 professional on a 64 bit XP machine).

I am aware that XP will require SP3.

Any warnings? Horror stories? Advice?

I just recently found out that one error in installing VS2010 in Windows 64-bit is the .net 4.0 it tries to locate WindowsCodecs.dll from System32 forlder, and when i tried to investigate I found out that the file is located in the Windows64 dit folder, so I copy the file in to the System32 folder and then tried installing VS2010 again and it went smoothly.

It installed fine for me, but a couple days later I'm noticing some .Net programs are no longer working (among other random apps I could find no correlation in). After messing around with it a bunch, I've determined the problem to be VS 2010. Also, every time I try to run these applications a VS 2010 debugger pops up, which is too great a co-incidence to not be related. I've uninstalled everything on my PC (freshly formatted WIN-XP 64-Bit edition here that only had 10-15 apps installed), all the way back to what it was when it was after I installed XP. I've tried reinstalling VS2010 and still no avail, I'm still getting errors when trying to open certain applications. And I've even got the BSOD from merely opening VS2010. From what I've dealt with so far, I would seriously advise against you trying this. I'm going to try and further mess with mine but if I had to go back and start again there's no way I would do this again. Waaay to much of a headache (why do the .NET frameworks take so long to install/remove!?)..

EDIT: In case somebody was wondering, these are the apps that stopped working for me post VS 2010 installation: Stardock Fences, Opera Web Browser 11.50, Teracopy, WinRAR , and "Everything Search" (which would launch, but always crashed about 15+ minutes after boot)

I wouldn't screw around with XP x64. Bite the bullet and upgrade to Win 7 x64.

Quite frankly, VS2010 hasn't been out long enough for anyone to find most of the issues that you might face. I wouldn't want to find myself in a situation where it installed, worked for simple things, then completely held up our development process because of some hidden issue we didn't find until too late.

Just to feedback on my experiences to date - works fine not ever a single problem (xp 64 bit, 8Gb RAM, 2.66Ghz duo). Finally moved to Windows 7!!