can i install and use, visual studio 2008 and visual studio 2010 on the same windows xp/vista

Question

can i install and use, visual studio 2008 and visual studio 2010 on the same windows xp/vista

• have visual studio 2008 installed and working

• wnat to install visual studio 2010 and use with 2008,

• some solutions on 08 and some on 10..

any problems possible?

Answer 1

Yes, you can! Can't add anything else, honestly! :)

Well, I personally have 2005, 2008 and 2010 installed on the same workstation, for various needs and projects. Works without any problem!

Answer 2

No problems at all running both Visual Studio 2008 and 2010 side-by-side. My development box is currently set up this way.

Solutions will automatically open in the version of Visual Studio that they were created in. You can manually choose to open them in a newer version, but you will need to update them. A wizard will automatically appear that guides you through the process.

Opening a solution saved with a newer version of VS in an older version is not a supported scenario.
But there is a workaround: simply open the *.sln file in a text editor (like Notepad) and decrement the version number by 1. You'll have to do the same thing for each of the project files.

Answer 3

我在将Visual Studio 2008项目转换为2010时遇到了同样的问题，这使该程序无法以我所采取的所有措施进行编译。和工作，但是如果要在那里开发项目，则需要手动打开Visual Basic 2008。

Answer 4

除非您尝试为Windows Phone 7开发，否则您应该不会有任何问题，而在Windows XP中，这是您目前无法做到的，甚至永远无法做到。