VS2008 alongside VS2005?

[Rama Krishna Vavilala]

None so far! Installed on two machines both working fine.

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[Shog9 0]

No, just install them in ascending order.

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[Mark Salsbery]

No problems here. I would still recommend reading the readme to make sure there's no last-minute known issues :) Mark

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[DigitalRacer]

Will this install on W2K? Or is the IT department going to have to finally install XP? don't ask DR

[Dan Neely]

The .net 3.5 stuff is XP/Vista only, so I'd be surprised if the dev environment would install.

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[DigitalRacer]

But if your target is only .Net 2.0 capable it would still be nice to use some of the Class Diagramming tools for C++ that are (allegedly) in VS2008 DR -- modified at 16:08 Tuesday 20th November, 2007 BTW can someone verify that the class tools work on unmanaged C++?

[Dan Neely]

agreed. OTOH unless the MS dev team managed to resist the urge to use any .net3.5 in the UI, or even just in the installer :rolleyes:, you'd still need XP to to the development. I might be wrong, but I wouldn't hold my breath on them not doing so.

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[Rob Graham]

They appear to work on unmanaged C++ just fine, although they seem a bitvery doggy when dealing with large classes. Takes quite a while to produce the initial diagram, and you won't be doing much else while waiting.

[Paul Conrad]

I haven't had any issues with them side by side...

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[Lost User]

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2007/11/20/steps-to-uninstall-vs-2008-beta2-before-installing-the-vs-2008-final-release.aspx That's from Guthrie himself. Enjoy

[Howard Richards]

Just starting to use it today, no obvious problems I can see so far. I have had both VS2008 and Vs2005 loaded at the same time, and they seem to co-exist quite well. I had Beta2 on this machine also for a while and it didn't cause any serious issues.

'Howard

[James H]

Virtualisation ... I now have a separate VM for each of old VS6, VS2003,VS2005 and coming soon VS2008. Problems I have seen in the past with multi install on the same box have not been so much with the IDE etc itself but with things like the various versions of help etc getting broken by the newer (or older) version.

[MU Fan]

I had no problem running side by side on my local machine. However whenI uploaded a site using .NET 3.5 Framework to our Godaddy account, it wouldn't run. Guess they need to upgrade their servers. Cheers, Steve

[MartinLeoJr]

The solution and project files will be converted. VS2005 will not open the converted solution.

[wdieteri]

Same kind of boat you are in. To solve that I went with Win2003 since IT had already approved that for use; I did have to get my desktop designated as a server but that was easier then getting the PC people to do an XP approval and install.

[Vu Loc]

No problem. I've been running them for the last 3 months and they don't conflict. We're developing new stuff on 2008 but still need 2005 to support some old ones. No problems encountered whatsoever.

[robwaw]

Anyone running VS2003, VS2005, and VS2008 on the same machine?

[Paul Sanders the other one]

That's outrageous! The IT department should be there to serve you, not you them. Thanks to those who have posted their experiences, by the way. I might just risk my precious, STABLE, VS 2005 installation and have a go with VS 2008.

Paul Sanders http://www.alpinesoft.co.uk

[srsabu]

Yep. I've got all three side-by-side along with VS6 under XP. No problems so far.

[deltalmg]

Makes total sense. No we won't install the simple OS, here have one with full blown IIS, FTP, terminal services, etc etc, and don't ask me to configure your system as a webserver, the answer is no :)