VS2008 alongside VS2005?

[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 :)

[Vark111]

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.

[DigitalRacer]

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....

[MAEI]

Why do you really need both?

wahoo

[Jeremy T Fuller]

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

[MrPlankton]

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

[Patrick Etc]

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.

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[Formative Innovations]

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....