Does Visual Studio 2010 RC play nice with Visual Studio 2008?

Does Visual Studio 2010 RC play nicely with Visual Studio 2008?

I am wondering if I need to setup a Virtual Machine to play with VS 2010 or if I can just install it on my Dev machine.

If it messes up VS 2010 then that is sad but ok. If it messed up VS 2008 then I would be in trouble.

Has anyone tried this out? Does it work well? Poorly?

Thanks for any answers.

Upvotes: 13

Answers (11)

Earlz

Reputation: 63915

I've installed 2010 with 2008 on this machine for silverlight development.. I haven't noticed any problems except for file associations all goto the 2010 version rather than what I'd prefer opened in 2008 by default. (2010 to me is much slower than 2008)

Upvotes: 0

asdfaaa

Reputation: 11

I installed 2010 with 2008 already installed. I had tons of hangs, crashes and general malfunctions. Reinstalling 2008 didn't help until I removed every trace of 2010 from registry.

Upvotes: 0

Jeff Keslinke

Reputation: 4368

I haven't installed it on my machine but my manager has and after we looked at it we decided it's best not to go there yet for two reasons:

1) We have to go through the whole conversion process again, which after our experience with 1.1 -> 2.0 wasn't very enticing.

2) We caused an error within the first couple minutes of playing around that worked fine on VS2008 leading us to believe it's not quite ready for primetime yet anyways. (It was adding a method in the class diagram that caused VS to crash for some reason).

Just my two cents though.

edit: I just found another great example, fifth one down: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/Tell-a-programmer.aspx

Upvotes: 3

Jimmy

Reputation: 91502

I've run into an error with IIS and VS2010 -- it's solved by re-running the .NET 3.5 version of aspnet_regiis.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/vsprereleaseannouncements/thread/44dfcf76-bede-4f96-a556-b219a18b6116

Upvotes: 1

kevchadders

Reputation: 8335

I havent go into too much testing with my VS 2008 projects in 2010, but it does look like it works fine with VS 2010 RC.

Also, both versions seem to run fine on my machine. (I have also VS 2003 on my local as well)

Bearing in mind its the Release Candidate version, is should be very reliable in this area.

Upvotes: 1

Michael Burr

Reputation: 340486

I've had no problems. Microsoft has designed the last several versions of Visual Studio to be able to co-exist side-by-side.

That said, VS 2010 is an RC, so it is still a pre-release. And even after it goes RTM, it's still a complex product and like any complex software install there can be bugs. I wouldn't expect serious problems, but there's always the fraction of a percent that do run into issues. So I'd still plan to install it on a day when you'd have cycles to deal with potential issues (if nothing else, installing it on my machine that hadn't had OS updates installed in a while required at least 2 reboots).

Upvotes: 11