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  • P Paul Conrad

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

    "Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus

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    Lost User
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    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

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    • P Patrick Etc

      Anyone experienced any problems? I'm about to take the plunge and don't want to compromise my dev machine..


      It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein

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      Howard Richards
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      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

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      • P Patrick Etc

        Anyone experienced any problems? I'm about to take the plunge and don't want to compromise my dev machine..


        It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein

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        James H
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        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.

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        • P Patrick Etc

          Anyone experienced any problems? I'm about to take the plunge and don't want to compromise my dev machine..


          It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein

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          MU Fan
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          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

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            Anyone experienced any problems? I'm about to take the plunge and don't want to compromise my dev machine..


            It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein

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

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            • D DigitalRacer

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

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              wdieteri
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              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.

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              • P Patrick Etc

                Anyone experienced any problems? I'm about to take the plunge and don't want to compromise my dev machine..


                It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein

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                Vu Loc
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                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.

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                • P Patrick Etc

                  Anyone experienced any problems? I'm about to take the plunge and don't want to compromise my dev machine..


                  It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein

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

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                  • W 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.

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                    Paul Sanders the other one
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                    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

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                    • R robwaw

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

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

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                      • W 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.

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                        deltalmg
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                        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 :)

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                        • P Patrick Etc

                          Anyone experienced any problems? I'm about to take the plunge and don't want to compromise my dev machine..


                          It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein

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                          Vark111
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                          Works great in our world, too. One thing you'll need to be careful of, though: the 2.0 red bits will show up in 2005 intellisense, so you'll want to use this blog post[^] to get an FXCop rule (works with the one built in to VS if you have Team Edition also works with the stand-alone FXCop if you don't) that will flag all the red bits.

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                          • P 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

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                            DigitalRacer
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                            That's a nice dream, perhaps, someday, it will be a reality. Actually, you see, we are here to make money for IT so they can sit in their little server room, playing music, games and talking to their friends and side job clients through IM and their cell phones. I better send this quick before the cut off my internet access....

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                            • P Patrick Etc

                              Anyone experienced any problems? I'm about to take the plunge and don't want to compromise my dev machine..


                              It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein

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                              MAEI
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                              Why do you really need both?

                              wahoo

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                                Anyone experienced any problems? I'm about to take the plunge and don't want to compromise my dev machine..


                                It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein

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                                Jeremy T Fuller
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                                No problems whatsoever with Beta 2 or RTM versions side by side with VS05 on Vista Ultimate.

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                                • P 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

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                                  MrPlankton
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                                  IT 's job is not "to serve" but soley to prevent a situation where the CEO/agency head has to testify in some sort of information disclosure failure in front of congress. Everything else IT does is incidental and a "nice to have ". http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2007113333116.gif[^] -- modified at 13:11 Wednesday 21st November, 2007

                                  MrPlankton

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                                  • M MAEI

                                    Why do you really need both?

                                    wahoo

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                                    Patrick Etc
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                                    Support for existing projects that won't be upgraded to .NET 3.5 and need to be opened by government customers who won't be using VS2008 for at least 3 years. Is that really so surprising and/or unusual...? I'd think that an immediate upgrade to 2008 would be the oddity.


                                    It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein

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                                    • P Patrick Etc

                                      Anyone experienced any problems? I'm about to take the plunge and don't want to compromise my dev machine..


                                      It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein

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                                      Formative Innovations
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                                      I'm workin on two project at once as we speak. I have VS2005 and VS2008 both open side by side while im working. No problems to date. If for whatever reason your compelled to, I would strongly warn that you do not copy and paste between the two programs. My only real problem with VS2008 is the ridiculously long install time (it takes less time to install Windows Vista or Adobe Creative Suite CS3, 13GB and 16GB+ respectively). Why it takes an hour to install 3.7GB's is beyond me....

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