I'll have to remember that excuse for the wifey. "See, I need this program for work, but I can't install it. I just have to get a new computer!".

>Thanks Perry -
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>Since you already played Wind Dummy (old hang-gliding term ) on this one I installed VS2008CTP on my VS2005 box and everything seems fine. I realize the crunch may come when I need to install the release VS2008 but I always look for excuses to buy new laptops so ...
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>>As Eric said, at least with VS, I haven't had a problem installing a CTP or beta with another version already installed. The problem I've seen is where the uninstaller that ships with the released version doesn't always completely clean up the betas. And there might be some manual work involved. It might be a bit easier if you have the beta on a VM and can just wipe away the VM and start again.
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>>The only issue I'm aware of with running multipe dotnets is for ASP.net where IIS is setup to load the newer version, but you still have some web pages created with the prior version. But there are ways to setup IIS to fix this.
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>>>I think my confusion is that I always see Virtual PC talked about for testing different operating systems but I'm not quite clear on how to implement it when you want the same operating system, but just a testbed for beta software.
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>>>>I currently have VS2008 RC0 installed on the same box as my VS2005 and had no problem.
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>>>>It is always a good idea to install Beta versions (and CTP even more) in VM because the un-installer is not always 100% perfect.
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>>>>A VPC version of teh Beta 2 is already available from http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-ca/vstudio/aa700831.aspx
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>>>>>Does anyone know what the implications are of installing VS2008 CTP on the same box with VS2005? My understanding is that .net 3.5 works fine under vs2005 but I'm sure somebody here understands this issue in much more depth than I.
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>>>>>I know about Virtual Machines but it seems like a lot of work to install another operating system just to run one software package. And what about SQL Server etc.?
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>>>>>Advice on running both on one OS or clarifying my understanding of how to setup the VM would be appreciated. It just seems at first glance that if it is going to take a day to get this up and running on a VM it would be cheaper to just buy a box specifically for testing the CTP.
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>>>>>Thoughts?