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Sunday, March 28, 2004

Side by Side VS.NET 2003 and 2005 CTP

Just for grins, I tried installing VS.NET 2003 and VS.NET 2005 CTP side by side in a virtual machine. I was pleasantly surprised with the results. They both installed fine and seem to run well on their own. Haven't tried any heavy development with either yet, so the true verdict is still out.

Of course, the problem noted in my previous post about IIS management console being broken is even more pronounced in this configuration, because you can't run the integrated debugger for web projects either. You will get an error that says VS can't launch the debugger. I was still able to run the web app and attach the debugger manually though.

Obviously not a recommended approach for a production development box, especially if you are developing web apps, but it was still a much more seamless attempt than when I tried the same with the PDC bits.

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Sunday, March 28, 2004 4:24:30 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Comments [3] |

Tuesday, March 30, 2004 7:20:46 AM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

Gosh.
That's a *big* change from the PDC bits (but then we'd expect that).

Kevin Daly

Thursday, April 01, 2004 11:11:29 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

It should work pretty well. The test team partialy requires a SxS environment to use 2003 to write tests for 2005 installed on the same machine. And the QA teams would notice if it didn't. :-)

Josh Ledgard

Friday, April 09, 2004 1:16:53 PM (GMT Standard Time, UTC+00:00)

It seems to have wiped out the macros on my machine in both VS 2003 and VS 2005. I can record new macros and everything but I can't seem to play them back in either environment.

David Scott

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