I wonder if They can work perfectly together...
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The simple answer is yes - I have both installed on the machine I'm replying to this question from. :=)
Rob
2008-09-26 21:52:18
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I have both running on my machine and all seems to be fine after 2 weeks of use...
Garth Gilmour
2008-09-26 21:52:29
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Yes VS'08 and VS'05 will work nicely when installed on the same machine.
Now, if only they made the .NET 2.0 support in VS'08 use the same solution/project file version number as VS'05 so you could easily move back and forth VS versions with the same project without modification.
Chris Pietschmann
2008-09-26 21:53:23
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Yes, they work well together. Refer to Installing Visual Studio Versions Side-by-Side on MSDN for more information.
You may need to install VS2005 before VS2008 though, or you're file associations may end up not working correctly.
Josh Sklare
2008-09-26 21:54:02
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I have VS2005 installed. But I was afraid about installing VS2008 and lose everything.
I think I have to install 3.5 framework first. Is that correct?
fhnaylor
2008-09-26 21:56:00
Installing VS2008 installs the 3.5 Framework.
Stephen Wrighton
2008-09-26 21:57:18
Ok. Thanks. All of you are really great!
fhnaylor
2008-09-26 21:58:36
Also install VS2008 SP1, which installs 3.5 SP1 as well. Use some caution though if you're developing a web app and the production machine doesn't have 3.5 SP1 and only has 3.5 http://www.romsteady.net/blog/2008/08/dbml-not-backwards-compatible.html
Schnapple
2008-09-26 22:03:36