James Zhou 2000

It is very interesting to know that the code compiled by Visual Studio 2012 on Windows 7 won't even run on XP system, unless, you upgrade their service pack to "Update 1" or newer versions like "Update 4". Once the update is finished, open the property page, and under configuration properties - general- platform toolset option, set parameters to Visual Studio 2012 - Windows XP (v110xp). Then everything should be fine. Note that on the target platform, i.e. the xp system, one needs to install the Visual C++ 2012 redistributable package.