I have VS2010RC and VS2008 installed - how can I run MVC 2 with both tools?

I'm going to have to disagree with the other answer's line of discussion about this being impossible. I've been working heavily with MVC 2 RTM since it was released in VS2010 RC. Just now, just to see if I could do it since I saw this question, I was able to create a VS2008-based MVC2 project.

Because of this, I suspect you did not install MVC 2 RTM properly. You SHOULD have done the following (and I'm unsure about one step):

Uninstall "ASP.NET MVC 2"
??? Uninstall "Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2 - Visual Studio 2008 Tools"
Install the new RTM.

Like I said, I forget whether or not I did step #2 but some people are saying to do it when I google around about it now. I tried to find the blog post that I used to use but is.gd lost my link (grr...). However, despite what the others are saying, I am definitely able to do what you said.

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The other option: You could always have somebody else who doesn't have VS2010 RC installed create the projects. The problem with 2008 should only be related to creating the projects and not necessarily working with the projects. Give that a try.

I read that quote, but it seems to address the RTM release and the RC release of MVC 2. If you uninstall the MVC 2 RC release you CAN install the RTM release with the VS 2010 RC release. I was hoping there was also a way to get it to work with both versions of VS...

DaveN59 2010-03-30 21:40:43

Let's hope it really is just 12 more days.

womp 2010-03-30 21:41:35

@womp, fingers crossed.

Darin Dimitrov 2010-03-30 21:42:30

@DaveN59, the scenario you are describing seems to fit exactly in the unsupported case.

Darin Dimitrov 2010-03-30 21:44:20

-1 because my dev box proves that this is possible.

Jaxidian 2010-03-30 22:01:13

That may work if I ever had MVC 1 or 2 installed with VS2008. I did not, so now I may be screwed. I guess one solution may be to uninstall VS2010, install MVC2 to work with VS2008, then reinstall VS2010? Sounds like a pain, but it may work...

DaveN59 2010-03-30 22:09:21

BTW, I did do steps 1 and 3 -- the RTM will not install if the RC release is already installed.

DaveN59 2010-03-30 22:10:20

Then perhaps step 2 is required and you missed that one. You should safely be able to just repeat steps 1, 2, and 3 again (this time step 1 will uninstall RTM instead of RC but that shouldn't matter) and maybe this will fix this for you. Seems like it should.

Jaxidian 2010-03-30 22:13:10

Jaxidian 2010-03-30 22:20:02

Ummm, I can't do step 2 because the MVC tools for VS2008 were never installed, so I can't uninstall them. Thanks for the encouragement, though, I do appreciate it!

DaveN59 2010-03-30 22:20:53

I responded before you posted the 2nd comment :) I got the tools using the Web Platform installer -- I will try the other site and see what happens.

DaveN59 2010-03-30 22:21:52

Arrghh!! It's a darn good thing there's no video, or you could see the egg on my face. I had been working on a project targeting Win 2k machines, using .NET 2.0 (as 2k doesn't support 3.5), and forgot to change that to 3.5 after I installed MVC... When I selected .NET 3.5 for the project, MVC magically appeared as an option!All is well, I can create and use MVC 2 projects in both VS2008 and VS2010RC. So much for the nay-sayers, eh?

DaveN59 2010-03-30 22:41:33

Excellent! Glad you figured it out even though I didn't help in any way other than to keep you motivated to keep trying! :-P

Jaxidian 2010-03-30 22:54:07

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