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... when you notice you have instances of Visual Studio 2015, 2008, and 2003 open. All at the same time.
Software Zen: delete this;
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When all you need is vi...
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Blech. I used vi once, a long time ago. Years of therapy helped dull the pain.
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Call it peaceful coexistence?
I remember a case when a friend had opened the same file in two instances of Norton Editor on DOS - about 25 years ago. Saved in one instance - and the file got deleted.
modified 6-Aug-15 11:30am.
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No, professional.
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What are you working on that requires three distinct versions to be open?
Are you looking at 2015 and wishing you were back in 2008?  From what I hear and read these days, VS2015 is for the birds.
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VS2003 - Our automated build process is part C++ app, part VBScript, part batch file. The C++ app is built with VS2003, and I've never gotten around to updating it.
VS2008 - Current product development.
VS2015 - I'm working on modernizing our current tool-chain, replacing SourceSafe with git and VS2008 with VS2015. At the moment I've only migrated part of our code base, and I'm working on cleaning up compiler diagnostics.
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I would update 2008 to 2013. Wait a year for 2015, IMHO.
EDIT: Your experience with 2015 maybe different, but most devs now are complaining about it. Might want to wait till some of the bugs have been squashed. 
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It's neither here nor there at the moment. My request to purchase VS2015 for the other members of my team is "on hold" until some time in Q4. Given that we may not be able to buy it until early next year, going ahead with a pilot project in VS2015 is probably fairly practical.
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Emilio Largo wrote: From what I hear and read these days, VS2015 is for the birds.
No, I bet even they would turn, turn, turn it off. 
The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative. -Winston Churchill
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. -Oscar Wilde
Wow, even the French showed a little more spine than that before they got their sh*t pushed in.[^] -Colin Mullikin
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In my case several VS versions generally means I'm trying to trace why some edge case works the way it does by going back to older versions of the application to figure out when it changed. While I've eliminated the VS 05/08 needs by updating the solutions to a newer version; the original VS03 version of the app uses a major 3rd party UI component that doesn't work in anything newer than .net 1.1.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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While it's known that the later version of VS can co-exist peacefully, having 2003 would make me a little nervous.
That's definitely a case where isolating everything by running multiple VMs makes a lot of sense.
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We've never had trouble getting anything from VC6 on from living side-by-side. I'll admit our scope has been fairly limited to C++ until VS2008, and C++/C# since then. I'm sure web developers would have a different view.
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I don't do web development, so I wouldn't know--but it does make sense.
I vaguely recollect something about different instances overwriting each other's environment variables for the path to various tools and such, and the compiler/linker getting mightily confused about that.
But, that was probably over a decade ago, and I have trouble remembering what I had for breakfast, so I'm a bit fuzzy on the details.
Thanks to VMs, nowadays I have no problem running practically any development tool on my machine, no matter how old or how (un)cooperative it is with other instances.
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As a keen gardener, I feel good from my head tomatoes...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Funny, I've just been picking figs in my garden. Nearly 4kg, so there may be some jam.
veni bibi saltavi
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As long as nobody jams your radar...[^]
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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If you come up with a better one, lettuce know.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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It's all that vine he's drinking.
/ravi
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This one kales in comparison to yesterdays.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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You're right - yesterday's was hard to beet.
/ravi
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While this one wasn't as good as yesterdays, we shouldn't turnip our noses at it.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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