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Asked: 2026-05-13T20:33:40+00:00

I recently bought Visual Studio 2008 Professional [Upgrade] to upgrade from my current Visual

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I recently bought Visual Studio 2008 Professional [Upgrade] to upgrade from my current Visual Studio 2005 Standard.

Now that I have installed VS 2008, is it ‘safe’ to uninstall VS 2005 using the Add/Remove control panel?

I don’t see any benefit of running 2005 and 2008 side-by-side. I have upgraded my projects into 2008 and have everything I need.

My concern is that by ‘upgrading’ there is still reliance from VS 2008 on some of the components that were installed with VS 2005 and that by uninstalling VS 2005 I will inadvertently remove components that are required for VS 2008 to work correctly?

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  1. Editorial Team

    No, there are no components of VS 2005 that the new version needs.

    It’s safe to uninstall VS 2005 before launching setup of VS 2008 Pro

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