VS 2003 and VS 2005 on the same PC?

[SteveInBeloit]

Can I have both installed on my laptop at the same time?

Thanks.

 

[JohnH]

Yes, you can. The Studios are separate applications, and the framework libraries install independently and does not affect each other.

 

[cjard]

the one thing you might find is that whichever one is installed last becomes the double-click handler for solutions and projects.. So you double click a 2003 project and the 2005 opens up. Its an easy thing to work around..

 

[SteveInBeloit]

Cjard,
I understand, so I would just open up the version of VS I need to work with, and open projects from there.
I'm glad this will work.
Thanks

 

[cjard]

Intriguingly, when I have 2 versions of VS installed, something like a SLN or VBPROJ file is registered as being opened by a app called "Visual Studio Version Selector" or soemthing like that.. Only, it never asked me to choose any versions, ever.. so maybe I was clicking the wrong thing, i dunno.. everything opens in 2005

 

[JohnH]

I saw that Selector dialog once (when I installed 2003 after 2005), think it was a checkbox to make default, because I've not seen it again. I do get correct Studio versions opening for different version solutions now.

 

[JuggaloBrotha]

I installed vs 2003 then a year later i got vs 2005 and all my vb2003 projects opens in 2003 on it's own and all the vb2005 projects open in 2005 on it's own

I didnt configure it this way, it does it by default, also after I installed vs 2005 I noticed all my vb 2003 solution files had the same icon but the icon now has a "7.1" in the top right corner too