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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 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 Basic 2008.

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

In This Section

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