Like everybody else I downloaded and installed my copy of VS 2005. Downloading took some patience but installation was a snap. Once again the Daemon tools virtual DVD drive worked flawless. Didn't burn the image to disk, I even didn't have to rename the image file. Quite unlike Geoff I did not install on a clean machine but on my regular desktop. This machine is running VS 2003 every day but hadn' t seen any beta yet. Setup was without a glitch, I think I even beat Jeremy. No problems with the MSXML parser, only MS anti-spyware asked twice for an approval. Once in the framework and once for the debugger. The nice thing is that MS anti-spyware doesn't block the installation. There was just a blue prompt waiting for me, in the mean time the installation had rolled on.
Do VS 2003 (.NET 1.1) and VS 2005 (.NET 2.0) work together on one machine ? Seeing is believing
They do. At the same time. Side by side, including MSDN documentation. As the differences between asp.net 1.1 and 2.0 are pretty big I don't feel like converting my apps to 2.0 straight away. And I don't have to.