Can several suites of the same version of Visual Studio be installed Side by Side?

Question

I would like to know if I can install say Visual Studio 2008 Pro and Visual Studio 2008 standard on the same machine. I have tried to install the pro (trial edition available on

Answer 1

I wouldn't recommend installing multiple editions of the same version side-by-side. I can imagine it playing havoc with the registry. If you just need to have all the different editions available for testing, I'd use VMs.

You can, however, install multiple editions (e.g. 2003, 2005 and 2008) side-by-side.