A newbie question upon installing 2 Visual Studio

[shyguyjeff]

Hello everyone have a nice morning..I just want to ask if can I install 2 Version of Microsoft Visual Studio like when I install Microsoft Visual Studio 2003 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. Is it possible guys? A really need a piece of advise from the experts and to those experienced person. Thanks in advance guys...God Bless...

[penagate]

They should not conflict, and if installed in their default configurations, they won't. It may be that they could be configured to conflict in some way, but I haven't seen it happen in practice.

[shyguyjeff]

tnx penegate i will try to install 2 version of Visual Studio....Have a nice day and God Bless!

[mendhak]

I have VS 2003, VS 2005 and VS 2008 on the same machine. It even has Visual Studio 6.

It won't cause problems.

[Hack]

Going along with mendhak, I also have VS 6.0, VS2005, VS2008 and had, for quite a while, VS 2003. I finally uninstalled 2003 simply because I never used it.

[Paul M]

Just on a side note there are some issues with VS 2003 if you are running Vista.

[DirtyHowi]

Just on a side note there are some issues with VS 2003 if you are running Vista.

there are apparently some issues with just about everything if your running vista.

vb6, 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2008 at one point all existed quite happily on my dev box. 2002 and 2003 have gone away now, much for the same reason sited above, i just dont' use em anymore. (and i neede room on the HD for a new game )

[shyguyjeff]

tnx guys...I will try to install maybe try visual studio inorder for me to compare and try to upgrade my work in vb.net2003 to 2005 and even to 2008..A million thanks to all...GOd Bless and have a nice day...

[k1ll3rdr4g0n]

To answer your question it shouldn't if you are not using some sort of library like DirectX.

I remember installing the DirectX API and I had VS 6 install, and the only IDE it would install to was VS 6.