I need both of them on one computer, first for educational purposes and second for work. Will there be compability problems?
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Dup: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/879913/will-installing-visual-studio-2010-beta-side-by-side-with-vs2008-cause-problems – VoodooChild Jun 21 '10 at 19:01
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possible duplicate of [Can Visual Studio 2010 be installed with Visual Studio 2008 side by side?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2627329/can-visual-studio-2010-be-installed-with-visual-studio-2008-side-by-side) – Michael Mrozek Jun 21 '10 at 19:02
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Yes. I have both of them installed side by side without any issues
Sergej Andrejev
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+1 Thought you might like another badge :) Oh, and it was the right answer. – Daniel Dyson Jun 23 '10 at 13:52
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They should work together fine. Just be sure to install them in order from oldest to newest. See this MSDN article for details.
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It should work fine, I have both installed on my current machine.
But just as an fyi, 2008 wasn't designed for Windows Vista/7, so it might throw up a warning or two when installing.
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Aye, it's possible. They install to different directories, and operate on different files, so no problem should be caused by having them both installed. (I have Visual Basic 05 and 08 on the same machine)
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