VS.NET and VS6 - Compatibility problems?
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I installed VS.NET about 2 months ago on my machine before I wiped it just to have a quick play, then I re-installed the machine (I was planning doing this before getting VS.NET :)). Is it possible to have both VS.NET and VS6 at the same time on the same machine and not have them conflicting with each other? Cheers, Peter Pearson
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I installed VS.NET about 2 months ago on my machine before I wiped it just to have a quick play, then I re-installed the machine (I was planning doing this before getting VS.NET :)). Is it possible to have both VS.NET and VS6 at the same time on the same machine and not have them conflicting with each other? Cheers, Peter Pearson
Same machine - Good. Same OS - Bad. I took my first steps into VS.NET recently, and...well, cool, but beta. two BlueScreens, by now. I put it on a seprate partition, separate OS install, and it's fine. Only.. it takes a few bytes. 2.5GB W2K+VS.NET (including compressed samples)
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I installed VS.NET about 2 months ago on my machine before I wiped it just to have a quick play, then I re-installed the machine (I was planning doing this before getting VS.NET :)). Is it possible to have both VS.NET and VS6 at the same time on the same machine and not have them conflicting with each other? Cheers, Peter Pearson
You certainly can, but whether you are supposed to is naother matter. I have been running VS6 and VS.NET side by side for about a month now, with no problems at all.
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I installed VS.NET about 2 months ago on my machine before I wiped it just to have a quick play, then I re-installed the machine (I was planning doing this before getting VS.NET :)). Is it possible to have both VS.NET and VS6 at the same time on the same machine and not have them conflicting with each other? Cheers, Peter Pearson
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You certainly can, but whether you are supposed to is naother matter. I have been running VS6 and VS.NET side by side for about a month now, with no problems at all.
I agree with James, it is possible to install and use VS 6 and .Net on the same OS/partition/etc. To my knowledge you will not get any compatibility problems between the two environments. However, the .Net install does so much to your Windows 2K that I am not very sure that you should have the two running together. I have learned not to trust system updates that are not released yet, there might be bugs in there that no-one has never heard of yet. The best thing to do here is to setup a 'test' OS on your system that you can crush as much as you want, without it actually affecting any of your work.
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Same machine - Good. Same OS - Bad. I took my first steps into VS.NET recently, and...well, cool, but beta. two BlueScreens, by now. I put it on a seprate partition, separate OS install, and it's fine. Only.. it takes a few bytes. 2.5GB W2K+VS.NET (including compressed samples)
Yeah, I'm thinking that - but two Win2k partitions??? I put it on a PIII 650 with 256 Mb RAM - it just about killed the machine, and VS.NET itself was slow - searching the help was just laughable. Cheers, Peter Pearson
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I agree with James, it is possible to install and use VS 6 and .Net on the same OS/partition/etc. To my knowledge you will not get any compatibility problems between the two environments. However, the .Net install does so much to your Windows 2K that I am not very sure that you should have the two running together. I have learned not to trust system updates that are not released yet, there might be bugs in there that no-one has never heard of yet. The best thing to do here is to setup a 'test' OS on your system that you can crush as much as you want, without it actually affecting any of your work.
Thanks - I suppose it's all a case of how well I want to know VS.NET and how much I want to mess up my pc. Peter Pearson
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Yeah, I'm thinking that - but two Win2k partitions??? I put it on a PIII 650 with 256 Mb RAM - it just about killed the machine, and VS.NET itself was slow - searching the help was just laughable. Cheers, Peter Pearson
Can you imagine how much fun it is on a K62-300 / 128MB? Hope it's getting better... or I am getting a better machine ;- ) Anyway, a second W2K partition isn't that bad (unless you have no spare partition left...) I'd just say it's still to risky to use your "normal" installation. Good luck! Peter not Pearson
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I did for about a month. The only issue I ran into was the environmental variables when I was trying to build a public C++ library. Finally got rid of VC6 - right now I just play at home anyway, not building anything for the general public.
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You can't distribute them at all, since your beta license agreement doesn't allow it. You *CAN* use it for things like in-house server products that don't go out to customers (just the output of the program does).