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Will installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta side by side with VS2008 cause problems?

Hi, Do you have any experience in having two different visuals(2008 and 2010) on one computer? I'm not sure if there wont be any problems with framework 4? I still want to develop some apps using 3.5 framework and vs 2008

Thanks

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    Dup: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/879913/will-installing-visual-studio-2010-beta-side-by-side-with-vs2008-cause-problems – Moayad Mardini Oct 29 '09 at 13:13

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I've installed VS 2010 and VS 2008 on my home PC and so far everything is fine. I haven't run into any issues at all. I've been able to continue with my .NET 3.5 dev projects and have been experimenting with .NET 4.0 projects as well.

  • Same here, but I've installed both on my work desktop. – Zote Oct 29 '09 at 13:38
  • My concern is that removing/upgrading VS2010 beta2 might be painful, and I don't want to rebuild my entire work desktop. I'll probably do it anyway... – Roger Lipscombe Oct 29 '09 at 13:49
  • @Roger Lipscombe - Admittedly I haven't removed it and it's definitely a valid concern considering the history of issues when removing a Microsoft beta product from your PC. –  Oct 29 '09 at 17:11
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Documentation tells us that you'll not encounter any problems, but your should do the following:

In general, you should install the earliest release of Visual Studio first, and then install subsequent versions of Visual Studio in the order in which they were released. For example, Visual Studio .NET 2002 should be installed before Visual Studio 2005, and Visual Studio 2005 should be installed before Visual Studio 2008.

Good luck.

EDIT: There's already a question about it: Will installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta side by side with VS2008 cause problems?.

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Moayad Mardini
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I'm running both right now without any problems at all.

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It works great. I had both on my machine since VS2010 Beta 1. Last week, I reinstalled Windows and switched completely to VS2010 Beta 2. Its multitargeting feature handles 3.5 apps pretty well.

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Not a problem - Microsoft have set out quite explicitly to support side by side installation of 2008 and 2010 (and of multiple versions of the .NET Framework).

See here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms246609(VS.100).aspx

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I am using 2008 for production work. I have VMware installed and have a vm for all my testing. VMware server is free and will meet all your needs. VMware workstation was less than $100 when I bought my copy and it will make your life a good deal easier. I know this is not exactly the answer you were looking for but it works for me.

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As a possible point, while it may work properly, I try to make a point of never (ever) installing beta software on my main work machine. Create a virtual machine, or have a play machine somewhere, but it's not worth the hassle if there are small problems that are not immediately obvious.

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