express - visual studio .net 2003 compatibility

express - visual studio .net 2003 compatibility

• Carlo Cantoni

  I installed sql 2005 express and vb 2005 express on my development machine and now asp.net doesn' t work for all my 2003 projects. What causes this
  

• rjwelte

  I have installed several Express products on a machine with VS.NET 2003.  So far, I have not had any problems, though I just started to use the Express products (Web Developer, C#, C++).
  
  

• Leif J

  Side-by-side installation of Visual Studio 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 is also supported with the final version.  Feel free to install any of the Visual Studio 2005 products on machines with Visual Studio 2003 already installed.  Both products will work.  Though, of course, once you start using VS 2005, you won't want to go back to VS 2003.
  
  Thanks,
  Scott Currie
  DDCPX Program Manager
  Microsoft
  

• pure159112

  Thankyou careed for your encouraging response.
  
  I went ahead and installed the c++ express  on the basis of the following faq for the beta product:
  

  Q: Will the Visual Studio Beta 2 Express Editions install side-by-side with Visual Studio .NET 2003 A: Yes, side-by-side compatibility with Visual Studio .NET 2003 has been tested.

  (see http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/express/faq/default.aspx ) and it went fine. I've only done some very preliminary checking but I note that the 2005 express installation replaces file associations (c, cpp, h etc) so if, like me, you have other editors also configured to associate with these file types you'll need to take that into consideration. The msvs.net 2003 solution files (*.sln) are marked as such and are still properly associated with that version.
  
  

• Cyber22

  I would also like an answer to this.  I have VS.Net 2003 Professional at work.  I would like to start upgrading some of our desktop apps to 2005.
  
  Is there any compatibility issues between 2003 and 2005
  
  
  
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