Visual Studio Dual Boot Scenario
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I had no idea you could do such things. Interesting... Now wait. If you installed it to a USB D:\ drive as an example then that should work right? That would get you what you were after.
Never really thought about it that way but its a bit late for that for me. I already have my vista machine fully up and running with everything installed on it.
-- Joseph Dempsey Sr. Software Engineer joseph_r_dempsey@yahoo.com
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I had no idea you could do such things. Interesting... Now wait. If you installed it to a USB D:\ drive as an example then that should work right? That would get you what you were after.
If he installed it over and over to the same drive, so the registry keys were written for each OS ? I still wonder if it won't crap itself when it finds half the local settings have changed ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
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If he installed it over and over to the same drive, so the registry keys were written for each OS ? I still wonder if it won't crap itself when it finds half the local settings have changed ?
Christian Graus - Microsoft MVP - C++ "also I don't think "TranslateOneToTwoBillion OneHundredAndFortySevenMillion FourHundredAndEightyThreeThousand SixHundredAndFortySeven()" is a very good choice for a function name" - SpacixOne ( offering help to someone who really needed it ) ( spaces added for the benefit of people running at < 1280x1024 )
It's worth trying. :)
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Yeah I thought of this but I just wanted to avoid trying it and then screwing up my install if it doesn't work the way it should. Well I suppose I'll just ghost my machine first then give it a go :)
-- Joseph Dempsey Sr. Software Engineer joseph_r_dempsey@yahoo.com
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I had no idea you could do such things. Interesting... Now wait. If you installed it to a USB D:\ drive as an example then that should work right? That would get you what you were after.
Borland had a registry-only install. I missed that when I first switched to VS. :( Mark
Mark Salsbery Microsoft MVP - Visual C++ :java:
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Does anyone here have an experience dual booting vista/xp/2k (any combo) and having a single visual studio install. I know some programs offer a "registry only" install so that you can use the same physical installation. I don't want to have to keep multiple copies around but I need to run vista and xp. I tried a quick Google and came up with a whole lot of not much. Any tips, hints, tricks or pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
-- Joseph Dempsey Sr. Software Engineer joseph_r_dempsey@yahoo.com
I used to do this many years back, with hard space needed. Havent do it in years. I did however have a SVN repository on my thumb drive (recently). :)
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Does anyone here have an experience dual booting vista/xp/2k (any combo) and having a single visual studio install. I know some programs offer a "registry only" install so that you can use the same physical installation. I don't want to have to keep multiple copies around but I need to run vista and xp. I tried a quick Google and came up with a whole lot of not much. Any tips, hints, tricks or pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
-- Joseph Dempsey Sr. Software Engineer joseph_r_dempsey@yahoo.com
I had used the same installation from two different os i.e. XP and Win2003. i don't exactly remeber, but as i recall, i think i did install the VS on XP and then from Win2003. well, when u finish installation on 1st OS, reboot ur system to the other OS and reinstall VS to the same location. i tell you it won't work since VS setup assumes that the VS is already installed there and won't write required registry settings etc. NOW after completing the installation, you need to rerun the setup and select the Reinstall option. simply let the setup reinstall visual studio and it will work. in fact i don't remeber the link where i got this tip.
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modified on Saturday, December 22, 2007 8:51:37 AM
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Does anyone here have an experience dual booting vista/xp/2k (any combo) and having a single visual studio install. I know some programs offer a "registry only" install so that you can use the same physical installation. I don't want to have to keep multiple copies around but I need to run vista and xp. I tried a quick Google and came up with a whole lot of not much. Any tips, hints, tricks or pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
-- Joseph Dempsey Sr. Software Engineer joseph_r_dempsey@yahoo.com
Hi I think it maybe quite easy to virtualize whole vs with tools like thinstall. With thinstall vs could be run from usb, lan share or even cd... Tiny problem "Pricing in North America starts at $4,995 for the Thinstall Virtualization Suite." Regards apache21
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Hi I think it maybe quite easy to virtualize whole vs with tools like thinstall. With thinstall vs could be run from usb, lan share or even cd... Tiny problem "Pricing in North America starts at $4,995 for the Thinstall Virtualization Suite." Regards apache21
Heck with that. Just put it on VMware virtual machine and run that from any system you need to use Visual Studio on. I have a virtual machine fully configured with all kinds of development tools on a USB hard drive, and all I have to install is VMware player or workstation, then I have everything.
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Does anyone here have an experience dual booting vista/xp/2k (any combo) and having a single visual studio install. I know some programs offer a "registry only" install so that you can use the same physical installation. I don't want to have to keep multiple copies around but I need to run vista and xp. I tried a quick Google and came up with a whole lot of not much. Any tips, hints, tricks or pointers in the right direction would be greatly appreciated.
-- Joseph Dempsey Sr. Software Engineer joseph_r_dempsey@yahoo.com
If your system runs on NTFS-formatted drives, then you can go this way:
- Install it again, wherever you prefer
- Delete one of the two installation folders, but write-down its full path
- Download Junction[^], a former SysInternals' free utility, now owned by Microsoft
- Create a Junction (friendly name for an NTFS Reparse Point, much like Unix/Linux/MacOS links) with the name of the deleted folder, pointing to the other installation folder
This should be enough...