Can Visual Studio 2012 be installed side-by-side w/ Visual Studio 2010?

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Chris Pietschmann picture Chris Pietschmann · Sep 15, 2011 · Viewed 54.4k times · Source

Will Visual Studio 2012 interfere/break .NET 4 and/or Visual Studio 2010 if installed side-by-side on the same instance of Windows?

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Niklas Söderberg picture Niklas Söderberg · Sep 15, 2011

As Reigo said, yes. Here's the link to the official Microsoft page with the information Reigo provided, and more details: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms246609%28v=VS.110%29.aspx

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