title: Visual C++ console apps on Windows IoT with Raspberry Pi 2
body: <p>I am just doing some first tests with applications developed with Visual Studio 2015 RC and Windows IoT on Raspberry Pi 2. For a first test I compiled C# Hello World, copied it to the PI via FTP and started it from a powershell. This worked out of the box.
  Then I tried the same with a Win32 console application (64-bit), also printing only Hello World. The error message I get in the powershell is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Program 'HelloCpp.exe' failed to run: The operation completed successfully.
      + CategoryInfo          : ResourceUnavailable: (:) [],     ApplicationFailedException
      + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandFailed
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I thought, this is to be expected because I did not install the VC++ 2015 (140) runtime. I tried to install this from the powershell in silent mode like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>.\vc_redist.x64.exe /q /norestart
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but it fails with</p>
  
  <pre><code>Program 'vc_redist.x64.exe' failed to run: The specified executable is not a valid application for this OS platform..
      + CategoryInfo          : ResourceUnavailable: (:) [], ApplicationFailedException
      + FullyQualifiedErrorId : NativeCommandFailed
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My question is:
  is it possible (or planned) to run C++ background processes like a simple TCP server that I can develop with Visual C++?</p>