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Running VS2008 side-by-side w/ VS2005

I'm mostly using C# but have some VB.NET apps in VS2005 (C#2.0 & .NET
2.0). Are there any issue running VS2005 and VS2008 on the same machine?

Thanks,

Bill
Oct 24 '08 #1
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I didn't have any running 2003, 2005 and 2008 on same machine

"Bill McCormick" <wp*********@ne wsgroup.nospamw rote in message
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I'm mostly using C# but have some VB.NET apps in VS2005 (C#2.0 & .NET
2.0). Are there any issue running VS2005 and VS2008 on the same machine?

Thanks,

Bill
Oct 24 '08 #2
"Bill McCormick" <wp*********@ne wsgroup.nospamw rote in message
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I'm mostly using C# but have some VB.NET apps in VS2005 (C#2.0 & .NET
2.0). Are there any issue running VS2005 and VS2008 on the same machine?
No. HOWEVER, even though VS 2008 can create projects targeted to the 2.0
Framework, it changes one (ONE!) XML tag in .csproj files from the 2005
version and these projects then become unreadable by VS 2005. So if you have
a C# project that you made in VS 2005 you cannot work with it in both IDEs;
once you use it in 2008 it'll be incompatible with 2005. This change was
just plain STUPID. I don't care if the new tag name "is more descriptive."
Oct 24 '08 #3

"Bill McCormick" <wp*********@ne wsgroup.nospamw rote in message
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I'm mostly using C# but have some VB.NET apps in VS2005 (C#2.0 & .NET
2.0). Are there any issue running VS2005 and VS2008 on the same machine?
No, each development solution uses its own .Net Framework and .Net Framework
runtime environment.

Oct 25 '08 #4
None whatsoever. Not sure it is needed, as you can compile to 2.0 in VS2008,
however.

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"Bill McCormick" <wp*********@ne wsgroup.nospamw rote in message
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I'm mostly using C# but have some VB.NET apps in VS2005 (C#2.0 & .NET
2.0). Are there any issue running VS2005 and VS2008 on the same machine?

Thanks,

Bill
Oct 27 '08 #5
"Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer - MVP)" <gb*****@comcas t.netwrote in message
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None whatsoever. Not sure it is needed, as you can compile to 2.0 in
VS2008, however.
As I mentioned, it's definitely needed if you're going to share 2.0 C#
projects with users who have VS 2005.
Oct 27 '08 #6

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