Does Visual Studio 2010 RC play nicely with Visual Studio 2008?
I am wondering if I need to setup a Virtual Machine to play with VS 2010 or if I can just install it on my Dev machine.
If it messes up VS 2010 then that is sad but ok. If it messed up VS 2008 then I would be in trouble.
Has anyone tried this out? Does it work well? Poorly?
Thanks for any answers.
I've had no problems. Microsoft has designed the last several versions of Visual Studio to be able to co-exist side-by-side.
That said, VS 2010 is an RC, so it is still a pre-release. And even after it goes RTM, it's still a complex product and like any complex software install there can be bugs. I wouldn't expect serious problems, but there's always the fraction of a percent that do run into issues. So I'd still plan to install it on a day when you'd have cycles to deal with potential issues (if nothing else, installing it on my machine that hadn't had OS updates installed in a while required at least 2 reboots).
Yes this works and is a supported scenario. My advice is to install 2008 first then 2010. This is the setup i have on multiple computers.
has worked for me without any issues so far. I would follow JaredPar's advice though, install 2008 first, then 2010.
I never trust the "plays nice with others" claims because I've been bit by it before. They supposedly co-exist, but I still put it in a VM.
See this blog post.
Visual Studio 2010 / .NET Framework 4 RC Ready for General Download
I haven't installed it on my machine but my manager has and after we looked at it we decided it's best not to go there yet for two reasons:
1) We have to go through the whole conversion process again, which after our experience with 1.1 -> 2.0 wasn't very enticing.
2) We caused an error within the first couple minutes of playing around that worked fine on VS2008 leading us to believe it's not quite ready for primetime yet anyways. (It was adding a method in the class diagram that caused VS to crash for some reason).
Just my two cents though.
edit: I just found another great example, fifth one down: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Tell-a-programmer.aspx
I've had no problems either. And I didn't with VS2010 beta 2 and VS2008 either.
I have both of them on my machine, so far no problems
I havent go into too much testing with my VS 2008 projects in 2010, but it does look like it works fine with VS 2010 RC.
Also, both versions seem to run fine on my machine. (I have also VS 2003 on my local as well)
Bearing in mind its the Release Candidate version, is should be very reliable in this area.
I've run into an error with IIS and VS2010 -- it's solved by re-running the .NET 3.5 version of aspnet_regiis.
http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsprereleaseannouncements/thread/44dfcf76-bede-4f96-a556-b219a18b6116
I installed 2010 with 2008 already installed. I had tons of hangs, crashes and general malfunctions. Reinstalling 2008 didn't help until I removed every trace of 2010 from registry.
I've installed 2010 with 2008 on this machine for silverlight development.. I haven't noticed any problems except for file associations all goto the 2010 version rather than what I'd prefer opened in 2008 by default. (2010 to me is much slower than 2008)
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i have visual studio 2010 installed on windows 7 machine and now i want to install visual studio 6 on same.
Does it harm my visual studio 2010 or is there any way out for the same.????
Thanks in advance
I've run several flavors of Visual Studio simultaneously on the same box installed in the order they were released. MS talks about doing this here and lists a few cautions/notes about doing so. Haven't installed them out of order before though, and haven't run VS6 in years.
Here's another SO discussion talking about multiple versions.
As an aside, opening solutions with the newer version can make it difficult, if not impossible, to open it again in the older version of Visual Studio.
That said, a colleague said he had considerable issues getting VS 6 to run on Win 7.
My suggestion, if possible, would be to build up a VM with XP on it and install VS 6 on that - certainly simplifies things considerably. Just my two cents.
It shoudn't be a problem,except for webmatrix. I know there is an issue with launching visual studio from Webmatrix if the last install is not the latest see http://forums.iis.net/t/1176503.aspx for more details.
I need to have Visual Studio 6 installed on a machine that already has Visual Studio 2010 Professional installed.
Can this be done without overwriting libraries, registry settings, etc., or should I go the longer route and set up a VM with Visual Studio 6 installed there?
Can Visual Studio 2010 co-exist with Visual Studio 6?
I know from experience that you can do the reverse - install VS6.0 and then 2003, 2008, and 2010, and have them all function. In this case, if 2010 is already installed, the likely worst case scenario is having to reinstall 2010. More than likely though, it will work out of the box. Unless you already have a VM set up, it will almost certainly be easier just to install VS 6.0.
Of course, if this is a matter of making a change to a specific legacy app, then you may want to set up the VM anyway for the ease of handing the project off to the next developer who has to work on that app.
Here's a question asked by someone using a similar setup, explaining a known issue and a workaround. i.e. it doesn't seem to be without its dificulties, but is not an impossibility.
There's no problem installing different versions of Visual Studio side by side.
Just curious how many people are actually running 2010 and what's your feedback so far?
Can I run 2010 concurrently with 2008 without issues?
Also, are 2008 projects 100% compatible with 2010 and if so should I just uninstall 2008?
Thanks for any feedback.
I've moved the whole development group for our project to VS2010 3 days after it came out. Before this I've been trying out the beta versions on my machine with some side projects.
From the experience I got I can say:
VS 2010 can easily run alongside VS
2008 on the same machine without any
issues whatsoever.
The projects
created in VS 2008 can be opened in
VS 2010. But when they are opened -
they will be updated to the new
format, and cannot be reopened in VS 2008. The changes aren't critical, so if it's necessary it is possible to
revert these changes. Possible, bt
not straightforward :)
This means that if you're working on a collaborative project, either the whole team moves to 2010, or you all stay with VS 2008. That doesn't mean you can't write your own projects in VS 2010 in parallel ^_^
UPD: I haven't met any projects that I wasn't able to convert using the conversion wizard. but just in case you can install VS 2010, convert your project, and see if it's all fine. If it is - work on it for a couple of days.. If you're completely satisfied - uninstall VS 2008 and feel good about it :D
Yes you can run 2010 concurrently with 2008. I wouldn't bet that every 2008 project can be opened/converted to a 2010 project otherwise Microsoft would have never spent so much time making the conversion wizard. The conversion wizard also mentions you should back up the files prior to conversion.
I want to try the latest VS2010 RC. But I am not very comfortable installing it on my production machine.
For Beta2 there were VirtualPC images available at Microsoft which I cannot find for the RC.
Did I overlook them or doesn't MS provide them?
There's not going to be a VM of this it looks like since RTM is in just over a month now. I guess they figured they'll get enough feedback on speed improvements from non-VM users that it's not worth it to support them in the RC?
I don't know the exact reasoning, but I wouldn't expect one to appear before RTM.
However, that's not to say you can't load up a VM and just install the VS 2010 RC ISO (found here!) on it.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=5e13b15a-fd74-4cd7-b53e-bdf9456855bd&displaylang=en
Like the title says is there any issues I should be aware of please?
Malcolm
I've done this without problems before. Just make sure you install them in chronological order - installing 2008 then 2005 can cause problems.
Just for reference, VS2010 installs side-by-side as well. I think MS realises that this is a pretty common thing to want to do :)
No, that's completely all right and safe.
You may be interested in "Mixing Visual Studio versions OK" :
Mixing Visual Studio versions OK?
I've got it installed on 2 machines, and I haven't encountered any issues.
I had no problems with this. I installed 2003, then 2008, then 2005.
I have 2005 and 2008 operating side by side. There are no issues from a usability standpoint of Visual Studio itself. The issues tend to be more subtle. For instance, I recently had a problem related the the ASP.NET AJAX extensions 1.0 and compatability after .NET 3.5 was installed as reported here.