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Supporting Multiple Versions of Visual Studio

The term side-by-side means that you can install and maintain multiple versions of a product on the same computer. For VSPackages, that means a user can have Visual Studio .NET 2003 and Visual Basic 2008 installed on the same computer. You cannot have side-by-side versions of your VSPackages loaded into a single version of Visual Basic 2008.

Before you make your VSPackage able to be loaded into side-by-side versions of Visual Basic 2008, consider the following:

In This Section

  • Creating a File Association
    Discusses file name extensions and how to associate them with files.

  • Installing VSPackages
    Discusses how to build and install VSPackages and how to support users who are running multiple versions of Visual Basic 2008 at the same time.