VS2005 breakdown after installing VS2008B2

[xpnctoc]

Hello,

Does anyone know anything about problems with running VS2005 / VS2005B2 side-by-side? When I installed 2008B2, it seemed to break a number of things in 2005. Consider:

I have an extensive 2005 C++/CLI project. Is used to build with 0 errors and 0 warnings. On the weekend I installed VS2008B2, I went back to 2005 and tried to rebuild my project. BOOM! 351 WARNINGS! First thing I did was check to make sure I was opening the project in 2005. I was. Did some research and found I was triggering a condition addressed by KB922271. The hotfix was not readily downloadable. You have to call MS tech support to obtain it. That's a load of crap. Rather than jump through hoops to get a hotfix, I uninstalled VS2008B2 and all related items (.NET 3.5, etc...). Surprise! my VS2005 project built with 0 warnings again.

So the question is why is VS2008B2 install affecting my VS2005 installation??? I thought the whole point of .NET was that you could run multiple versions side-by-side without fear of side effects. So much for that!

Your thoughs and comments are appreciated...

Thanks.

[Plater]

Well you see that "B" in the name?
That means its in Beta still.

But yes, I had troubles with .NET3.5 as well.

[RedSon]

Hello,

Does anyone know anything about problems with running VS2005 / VS2005B2 side-by-side? When I installed 2008B2, it seemed to break a number of things in 2005. Consider:

I have an extensive 2005 C++/CLI project. Is used to build with 0 errors and 0 warnings. On the weekend I installed VS2008B2, I went back to 2005 and tried to rebuild my project. BOOM! 351 WARNINGS! First thing I did was check to make sure I was opening the project in 2005. I was. Did some research and found I was triggering a condition addressed by KB922271. The hotfix was not readily downloadable. You have to call MS tech support to obtain it. That's a load of crap. Rather than jump through hoops to get a hotfix, I uninstalled VS2008B2 and all related items (.NET 3.5, etc...). Surprise! my VS2005 project built with 0 warnings again.

So the question is why is VS2008B2 install affecting my VS2005 installation??? I thought the whole point of .NET was that you could run multiple versions side-by-side without fear of side effects. So much for that!

Your thoughs and comments are appreciated...

Thanks.

When you installed VS 2008 it installed the latest .net framework. You got 351 warnings not errors. So far you haven't described any adverse side effects, you have just described the .net framework warning you that your code is out of date. If you want it to be compatible with the latest .net version you need to update the 351 spots where there were warnings.

I looked at article 922271 and this only applies to people building using the command line. Are you using the command line to build your projects? Also this article only applies to .net 2.0 so if you have 3.x installed then you should be having no problems.