Visual Studio 6 and Visual Studio 2003

[saw15]

Can you have both installed on the same machine without causing conflicts?

Thanks in advance,

 

[Chopstik]

In my (limited) experience, I would think not. Oftentimes there are registry changes and certain files tend to be upgraded/overwritten that may cause negative consequences in one or the other of the applications. Not sure if this would change even if you put them into separate directories/drives, but still think you would have a problem because there will likely be system files that both would use that could potentially be corrupted if both apps were loaded.

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[cbokowski]

You can have both installed and running side by side. I have had 6 and .net since vs2002 was released.