I am still using Windows XP and didn’t want to upgrade to Windows 7 yet, so I had to find a way to install Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone on XP machine.
After some searches, I found this solution:

  1. Download the Windows Phone Developer Tools RTW from Microsoft Download Center
  2. Extract the downloaded package by running vm_web.exe /x
  3. Go to the folder of the extracted package & open the file baseline.dat in any text editor
  4. Look for the ‘gencomp7788’ section and change this two entries from 1 to 0:
    • InstallOnLHS=0
    • InstallOnWinXP=0
  5. Save the file baseline.dat
  6. Run setup.exe /web
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