Side by side seems to work, though when you're UNinstalling, it will wipe off .NET 1.x installations as well, so you'll have to repair install vs.net 2003.

My advice: add a cheap HDD to your computer, install winxp on it and whidbey beta 2 and dual boot.

Thanks for the comment Frans.

That is odd with the uninstall. Now should be the time for side by side though, in my opinion. I'll expect to run the two side by side when it goes RTM just like I did with 1.0 and 1.1, and would hate to wait till then to find any issues with it. Plus I don't think I'll give it then attention it needs if its not in front of my face all the time.

The uninstall trick kinda worries me, but I think I'm going to bite the bullet soon.

Well just got the ok from my mgr to be the test bed for side by side. My contention was that in less then a year, a side by side install will be the in the base developer image here, so better to test it early.

Hopefully I'll do the install tonight or tomorrow night. Stay tuned for more details.

This doesn't directly answer your question, I don't install beta side by side since my dev machine is too complicated to wipe clean (takes about 3 weeks to get settled in). I use VPC but even with beta one, I could swear it performanced better in VPC than 2003 does native. Of course, I have a AMD 64-bit 3500+ 1GB Dual Channel RAM and an SATA 300GB hard disk, which all probly helps. I run 2003 in native and B1 in VPC at the same time and have no noticeable performance issues (the guest os is WinXP SP1 all updates applied) consuming 512MB RAM.

Thanks,
Shawn

Just wanted to say thanks for all of the posts on your Beta 2.0 experience. I'm still waiting on the DVD ISO to extract!

Thanks for the comment Dave. I hope your vacation was awesome! :)

Expect to see more coming too. I'm taking the Mike Clark (write a bunch of unit tests to test the framework) approach to learning some of the changes, and plan on blogging about it quite a bit as I roll through the process. GL on your install, although mine was much more painless then I would have expected.

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