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installing VS6 and VS7 (.NET) on the same machine

by Ron Yacketta · in General Discussion · 02/28/2003 (7:59 am) · 9 replies

Folks,

Has anyone achived the above? I have played with a dual install for the past couple of days. I have a distant learning req that forces me to have .NET installed, I also have business related req's that require me to have VS6 (with sp5) installed.

any ideas?

I have tried to install VS6, sp5 then .NET and I have issues when I compile in either env. I have also tried .NET then VS6 and get similar results.

Please help me before I rip out what little hair I have left.


Regards,

Ron
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Torque Owner Mz
#1
02/28/2003 (8:05 am)
It worked for me out of the box on several machines, though there are some funky problems if you try to compile from the command line and not from the IDE.

What kind of issues are you getting?

Associate Ron Yacketta
#2
02/28/2003 (8:15 am)
I will have to compile and report back, I removed VS6 1/2 hour agao because it was just to time consuming and to much trouble to proceed.


-Ron

Torque Owner Simon Windmill
#3
02/28/2003 (9:20 am)
Can't say I've seen the same problem Ron. I had VC6 installed, then VS.net, I do work stuff in 6, personal stuff in .net.

Torque 3D Owner Gareth Davies
#4
02/28/2003 (10:06 am)
Apart from the obvious file extension conflict issues i've never had a problem having both installed on the same machine. Just make sure you install and patch up before you install .net as i've seen some people complain about problems that causes.

Torque Owner J. Donavan Stanley
#5
02/28/2003 (10:32 am)
Likewise I've run both VC6 and 7 both at work and at home without any major issues. The only issues I HAVE had revolve around file associations.

Associate Ron Yacketta
#6
02/28/2003 (10:40 am)
That poves it then, I am just a complete idiot ;) I will give it another go this evening on my laptop.

I will axe VS .NET and the frame work, hack the registry and remove every thing .NET related. Do a few clean reboots, pray to the MS god (Bill).

Is this a valid plan of attack?

1) install VS6
2) install SP5
3) run the reg script from TGE
4) install VS7 and .NET frame work

-Ron

Torque Owner J. Donavan Stanley
#7
02/28/2003 (7:18 pm)
Yep that should work. In fact your last two steps can be interchanged. I had VS7 on my machine before TGE...

Torque 3D Owner Gareth Davies
#8
03/02/2003 (5:07 am)
Of course a 'feature' of .net is that is steals the .cs file extension for C# files... which can cause some confusion with torque script files.

An extreme annoyance if you want to work with both.

Associate Ron Yacketta
#9
03/02/2003 (7:42 am)
no issue at all :) I use visual slickedit for script, so I just open VS and do my work their.

-Ron