A group of us are working on a project which we built with .NET 3.5 in Visual Studio 2008. I want to test out Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4 (well, mainly for WPF 4). I am just wondering if I install VS 2010, will I still be able to use VS 2008 to open the first project.
I know when I open older projects made in VS 2003/2005, I get an upgrade wizard. I do not want to upgrade the first project to 2010, since that would probably mean every one else has to use it too.
I have not done this before, is it possible to run both versions of Visual Studio, where each version opens its own projects (this may not even be an issue, but I just wanted someone to confirm this, so that I don’t spend a lot of time trying to undo changes)?
Yes, this is fine.
If you open the project in VS 2010, it will convert that specific project. However, if you never open the project, you can continue to use it in VS 2008.
I currently have both versions installed on my machine, and use 2008 for our released, maintenance projects, and 2010 for our new development projects.