vs2003 with vs2005

[John]

Hi

Is it possible to install and use vs2003/net1.1 and vs2005/net2 side by side
on the same drive? Only from experience please.

Thanks

Regards

 

[Cor Ligthert [MVP]]

John,

I am doing it at the moment with RC1 (I did it with april and august).

However if it will be a problem, than I probably will have the same as you.

RC1 is still a kind of Beta, so "no problem" is not guaranteed.

I hope this helps,

Cor

 

[John]

I am guessing, this means no obvious problem so far?

Regards

 

[Guest]

..NET 2.0 installs into a different directory
VS 2005 installs into a different directory

Thus far, 0 problems. Have tested April CTP, May CTp, Beta 2, August CTP and
the RC. I do not do this on my production machine, as I am a bit paranoid,
but it works fine on the machines I have had it on.

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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Think Outside the Box!
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[Kevin Spencer]

Yup. VS.Net 2005 is cucrently at the Release Candidate stage, and I have
seen a few minor (but manageable) issues with having both installed, less
with each revision released. But I use both quite often, even at the same
time.

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HTH,

Kevin Spencer
Microsoft MVP
..Net Developer
I'd rather be a hammer than a nail.

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

The only problem I've seen reported is that VS 2003
must be installed previous to VS 2005 being installed.

Otherwise, the VS 2003 documentation has problems.

Other than that, I haven't heard of any problems.

It would be wise, anyway, to install them into a virtual machine,
so that -if you do have a problem- eliminating it is easy and painless.

 

[Sahil Malik [MVP]]

I've had problems, especially around file extensions, or when working with
XML etc. Honestly, I don't think I'd want to do it in my paid for
development environment, but from an experience "play with it" point of
view - it may work. ASP.NET will be a bigger pain in the ar~~se.

- Sahil Malik [MVP]
ADO.NET 2.0 book -
http://codebetter.com/blogs/sahil.malik/archive/2005/05/13/63199.aspx