Friday, December 12, 2008

Installing Visual Studio 2003 after 2005

Thought I'd post this because Google didn't give me the answer I needed and I'm sure there are other people out there who find out they need VS 2003 for some reason, AFTER they install VS 2005.

Problem: The VS 2003 installer tries to setup the prerequisites and fails on the .Net Framework 1.1 installation, because 2.0 is already installed. This then causes the rest of the installation to fail.

Solution: Install the 1.1 framework using a downloadable installer, which for some reason succeeds where the one shipped with VS 2003 failed. After that, start the VS 2003 installation again; it'll find 1.1 in place and perform the rest of the installation flawlessly.

Caveat: MS says multiple versions of VS can coexist, but recommends the installations to be in the order of release, so I'm not sure if I've actually broken anything obscure going in reverse.

4 comments:

NishaRavinder said...

hey wat u mean by dowlaoded installer of .net 1.1

Channa Gunawardena said...

OK, should've been clearer; I meant the Microsoft .NET Framework Version 1.1 Redistributable Package available here.

Anonymous said...

Thank you. This was helpful.

tknv said...

I will try tomorrow it.
Now I use Visual Studio 2005.
so I need to make BTIL develop env.
that's why I will install Visual Studio 2003.
But How was after that ?
Does anyone has some issue ?

Anyway Thanks a lot,helpful info.