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What kind of problems might this cause?
Is it better to install in a VM?
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For VSPackages, that means a user can have several Visual Studio versions installed on the same computer. However, you cannot have side-by-side versions of your VSPackages loaded into a single version of Visual Studio.
If you try to use Visual Studio 2022 to open a solution that was created in Visual Studio 2019 or an earlier version, you might need to modify your projects and files to be compatible with Visual Studio 2022. For more information, see the Port, migrate, and upgrade Visual Studio Projects page.
You have two options here in windows 8.0 or 8.1 go to run and type'devenv' and then the Visual studio opens up for you. Else search using the app name and select 'Microsoft Visual studio' from the list of apps installed, right click on the app and select the option 'pin to the start' or 'pin to the task bar'.
It is always possible that side-by-side installation issues exist, and you should have the appropriate safeguards in place (e.g. backup, use a VM, etc.).
In my personal experience, it has worked just fine. For my Tech Ed presentation, I rebuilt my laptop with Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010 all installed side-by-side on Windows 7 x64. I didn't experience any problems.
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