Can both VS2005 and 2008 be installed on XP

[Cold_Fearing_Bird]

Because of some reasons I have to use both VS2005 and VS2008 on my computer. if it can, is there any thing I should be careful with?

[Chris Losinger]

yes, they can both be installed. i have VC6, VS03, VS05, VS08 and VS10 on mine. they all work fine together.

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[Rajesh R Subramanian]

It would be a good idea to install the products in the order that they were released. In your case, first install VS 2005 followed by VS 2008. :)

"Real men drive manual transmission" - Rajesh.

[Cold_Fearing_Bird]

Thanks

[Albert Holguin]

This is very important... I have VS6, 2003, 2005, and 2008 on one machine...

[_Superman_]

WOW !!! Didn't you get your hands on any earlier versions??? ;P

«_Superman_»  _I love work. It gives me something to do between weekends.

_Microsoft MVP (Visual C++)

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[Chris Losinger]

i don't need any of the other VCs. but if i could get DOS C 6.0 to run on Win7, i'd have it, too.

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[Lost User]

I use Microsoft C 6.0 with DosBox[^] under Windows XP. It should probably work under Windows 7 too.

[Jaime Olivares]

They are explicity designed to be installed side by side

Best regards, Jaime.

[Ni7408]

yes they do just pay attention that u install 2005 first and the 2008.remember for anything put version vice first the older then the new.

[Stefan_Lang]

I've had a setup like this some 15 years ago, and the only problem I had was the incompatibility between different versions of the MFC. I had to put copies of the correct version into a binary folder and copy my compiled binaries in there during a custom build step to make sure they would be using the correct version. Not sure if such problems still exist, or if they extend to ATL and other runtime libraries.