Microsoft Azure Service Fabric SDK - Preview 1 fais to install on win 7 + VS 2015RC

Question

I am trying to install Azure Service Fabric SDK - Preview 1 according to this MS article in which it is clearly stated that

The tools for Service Fabric Preview 1 depend on Visual Studio 2015 RC, which you can find here.

I have VS 2015 RC PRO already installed. I have VS 2012 U4 too. Azure SDK 2.56 too.

The surprise comes when I try to download and install it. Here is a screenshot of the error message - Windows Server 2012 is required.

Here is log 1. Here is log 2.

I just can figure out what is wrong and how am I supposed to develop for service fabric? Am I required to have WS 2012 with VS 2015 on it?

Answer 1

Windows 7 is not supported for the preview. Supported OS versions are:

• Windows 8/8.1
• Windows Server 2012 R2
• Windows 10 Technical Preview

As Darran suggests, you can use the Azure VM gallery to get a Server 2012 image with VS 2015 RC pre-installed and then install the preview on top of it.

Feel free to add Windows 7 support as a request on the Service Fabric UserVoice forum .

Answer 2

Which OS are you trying to install on? I believe Windows 8 / 8.1 are > Server 2012. I've got it running on Windows 8.1. You could always use a Server 2012 VM on Azure. There's an image in the MSDN gallery with VS15 RC pre-installed.