I recently installed Visual Studio Professional 2010 Beta 1 and noticed that most of the install directories were independent of "shared" directories (I have Visual Studio C++ 2008 Express installed and didn't notice any conflicts). If I install the full version (non-beta/trialware), of VS 2008 TS, will it conflict at all with the VS 2010 Beta 1 install ? I probably should have installed VS 2008 TS first...
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Though the reverse would probably be the better choice, I've done exactly as you've described and have not run into problems on that machine yet. Both installations seem to run fine independent of each other.
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Is it possible to install Visual Studio 2005 on Windows 10?
I need to maintain a legacy application that targets .NET Framework 2.0, so I need to use this version of Visual Studio.
It is not supported, but it works as far as I have tried. Coincidentally, I came here after I searched about the same thing while I was installing Visual Studio 2005 Professional on Windows 10 64 bit. I have some old VS 2005 C++ source that someone has given me to modify.
After the installation of VS 2005 was complete, I installed the following two updates in this order:
VS80sp1-KB926601-X86-ENU.exe -> Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Service Pack 1
VS80sp1-KB932232-X86-ENU.exe -> Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista
Look for these on Google to find download links from MSDN. After installing these updates, I just launched VS 2005, and so far, everything has worked fine. The app is running, there are no errors, builds are fine, and I can use VS 2005 as always.
My system is having VS 2015 and windows 7 Enterprise.
I have some solution file, which was created in vs 2008.
After opening in vs 2008, there are some upgraded log from vs 2015.
a lot of errors needs to be resolved to make build successed.
Is it ok to install visual studio 2008 over visual studio 2015 ?
this link Can I install two different versions of Visual Studio on the same computer? does not tell if it is ok to install lower version over higher version.
It's possible, but with a bit of risk that some features of the newer VS will break. I have no experience with these two combined, but in the past things got broken for me after installing vs2005 after vs2008 or vs2010. A re-install of the newer version would be needed if this happens.
Generally, it is ok. You can have many different visual studios installed on your machine.
I have installed Visual Studio 2013 Pro and then I wanted to install Windows Phone 8 SDK. But it installed Express Edition of VS 2012. Now if I delete VS 2013, what happens with my VS 2012? Can I delete it, because I don't have enough memory for it? Can you help me, please!
They are independent, you can uninstal one without influencing the other.
You can install this version of Visual Studio on a computer that already has an earlier version installed.
but
If you uninstall a version of Visual Studio on a computer that has more than one version installed, the file associations for Visual Studio are removed for all versions.
More information : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms246609.aspx
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.
A couple of days ago, I installed Visual Studio Express for C#; yesterday I installed Visual Studio Ultimate. Since I will no longer use the former, is it safe to uninstall it?
I uninstalled Visual Studio Express 2012 for Web right after having installed Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate and it still works perfectly. Also tried after a reboot, just to be sure.