I already installed the Visual Studio Express 2013 For Windows Desktop to my system and now I want to install the Visual Studio Express 2013 for Web Application.
Problems:
It is possible to install both Visual Studio versions on the same system?
If I installed both software on the same system than it may occur any issues?
Even if you install both version it neither affect your machine nor slower your machine .
You can indeed install both versions side-by-side. In fact, Visual Studio is designed such that you can install not only different editions within the same version (e.g., VS 2013 for Desktop alongside VS 2013 for Web), but also different versions (e.g., a VS 2013 edition alongside a VS 2015 edition).
Check out the Installing Visual Studio Versions Side-by-Side article on MSDN. The only stipulation that Microsoft makes is that versions should be installed in the order in which they were released (e.g., install VS 2013 before VS 2015 products).
On my personal development machine, I have VS 2012 Desktop, 2013 Desktop, and VS 2015 for Web installed without any issues whatsoever. I routinely run different versions at the same time as well.
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If Visual Studio 2015 (and 2017) are installed from MSDN using a Visual Studio Professional ISO, can it later be upgraded to Enterprise using a new license key? ...or does it require a complete uninstall/reinstall of Visual Studio?
You need to install the enterprise version to obtain it, and VS cannot change the version through the type of your license key and the VS version depends on your installation.
For VS 2015, we can only keep one version on the computer. If you already installed the VS professional 2015, as far as I know, you can directly install run the VS enterprise 2015 installer to install it. After the installation is complete and successful, the professional is auto removed or replaced by the higher enterprise version. You can also try to use the forcibly uninstall command like: vs_professional.exe /uninstall /force to uninstall the professional version.
For VS 2017, please check the VS 2017 Release Notes and it describes Visual Studio Enterprise and Community (among other products) can now be installed side-by-side on the same computer. To make identifying these installations simpler, you can specify a short name or "nickname".
Visual Studio 2015 Enterprise installer should tell you whether you need to uninstall Professional.
Visual Studio 2017 no longer has that restriction, and you can install both Professional and Enterprise side by side.
If you have VS Installer you can easily change versions. Although you need to uninstall the version you have, you can use the same Installer you ran for uninstallation (i.e. VSPro) to Download & install new version (i.e. Enterprise).
I have Visual Studio 2013 Web Exppress installed on my PC.
The installation was plain, Default and no other stuff was installed by now.
Now I have a MSDN-Subscription and want to "updgrade" to Visual Studio 2013 Pro.
What is the best way?
1) Deinstalling VS 2013 Web Express and Install VS 2013 Pro
2) Just install VS 2013 Pro over VS 2013 Web Express
If I understand it right, I don´t need Web Express when I use Pro, right?
You can just go with option 2, it's a supported scenario. However, you are correct that you'll no longer need Express, as Pro contains all the same features and more.
Note that if you've installed VS Updates for Express, you'll need to install the same VS Updates for Pro, or else some things might not work.
I cam across this question here on SE:
Can Visual Studio 2012 be installed side-by-side w/ Visual Studio 2010?
According to one comment with a good amount of upvotes, having 2010 and 2012 installed at the same time can present issues. I then came across this MSDN page about 2013:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh266747.aspx
If you use Visual Studio 2013 together with Visual Studio 2012 or Visual Studio 2010 SP1, you can [blah blah]
That suggests that 2013 can be safely installed along with VS2012. Can anyone confirm?
Take a look at Brian Harry´s Blog post announcing Visual Studio 2013.
VS 2013 can be installed side by side with previous versions of Visual Studio or, if you have a VS 2013 pre-release, it can be installed straight over top of the pre-release. TFS 2013 cannot be installed side by side but can also be installed over top of either a previous version (TFS 2012 or TFS 2010) or a pre-release.
Looks like you can, yes.
You can install this version of Visual Studio on a computer that
already has an earlier version installed.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms246609%28v=vs.120%29.aspx
Only issue I can see is during uninstallation, where the file associations may get lost.
I was having two installation on my computer. Really no problems.
From personal experience, I've come across multiple issues with using Visual Studio 2012 and prior, while a VS2013 installation exists on a machine.
Some of the issues include built executables failing to launch (double clicking .exe does nothing, but debugging them in VS launches them), and inability to compile solutions that mix C# and C++ projects.
I would avoid 2013 until these issues are resolved, as just having it installed on a machine breaks older code, even if you don't use VS2013.
There are some minor (compatibility) issues between using both VS2010 and VS2012 on the same Solution, but simply having VS2012 installed on your machine won't effect anything in VS2010.
There may be compatibility issues with 2013 Community edition. I had VS 2012 Ultimate and VS 2013 Express installed and working without any issue, but as soon as I installed VS 2013 Community, my VS 2012 Ultimate install has been behaving unusually. When I first open VS 2012 U, there is a really long load time. When I perform some action (open a file, select a menu option, anything actually) I have to minimize and maximize VS 2012 U for the screen to refresh. I am still trying to figure it out myself - so if anyone has a solution, please share.
I need both Visual Studio 2012 Express and Visual Studio 2012 Premium installed because of licensing reasons (I downloaded Visual Studio 2012 Premium from DreamSpark).
Is it possible to have them both installed on the same machine? Won't their installations clash with each other?
I have Visual Studio Express for Web 2012 and Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 installed on the same machine, with no problems that I know of.
It is possible like Alyce sad (+1). I know some colleagues which have 3 and more VS installed. I personally installed two generation (2008 and 2012). In some case installation sequence matters. There are also several Microsoft help-sites about this theme like this one.
I just installed VS 2010 Professional Edition, then the Service Pack 1. So now I wanted to install the 7.1 RC for WP7. The first thing it tries to do is download VS 2010 Express. Is this normal? Do I really have to install 2 versions of VS to develop for WP7?
If you already have a valid and applicable edition of Visual Studio 2010 installed, then the installer installs the SDK, Expression Blend, emulator, etc. and adds the necessary project templates into your existing edition. It will not install Visual Studio 2010 Express if you have already have an existing edition, so there are no issues around multiple installs of Visual Studio.