Visual Studio Version Selector issues - Installing SQL2K5 Dev after Visual Studio 2008

Question

On a clean machine I installed Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite and about a week later I installed SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition. Now when I try to open a solution made in Visual Studio 2005 it will by default be opened in the Visual Studio 2005 shell installed during the installation of SQL Server 2005 Developer Edition but off course it will not recognize the project types in that solution.

 

Is this normal that the solution is going to be opened in the Visual Studio 2005 shell? Is there a workaround to change this once instead of having me explicitly opening alle Visual Studio 2005 solutions in Visual Studio 2008?

Answer 1

hi:

you can try to restore file association in VS from Tools->option->Environment->General

then click the  "Restore File Assoications" button on the dialogue.

 

 

 

Answer 2

This solution does not work for me. Any other ideas?

Answer 3

I forgot about this thread until Johan replied to it and I received a reminder but the I had already tried the suggested solution by restoring the file associations and this does not work as also observed by Johan.

Answer 4

Any solution to this problem?

Answer 5

I had same problem. i looked over internet and found this and worked for me.

for regualr installation(VS 2005, VS 2008) of Visual studio VSLauncher.exe and devenv.exe requires Administrator privileges .
The best way to set this up is in their properties(Right click -> properties -> (tab Compatibility) Run this program as an administrator (check box in Privilege LEvel frame)-> Make sure it's checked. ->OK.)

VS launcher   -C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\MSEnv\VSLauncher.exe
VS 2005        -C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe
VS 2005        -C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe

Hope this works.