Now that all the interesting releases of last week and this week are publicly available (for MSDN subscribers) many people both internally and externally wonder what can be installed together. Let's check the version numbers of the CLR each product uses:
VS.NET 2005 Feb CTP (aka PD7): 50110.28
SQL Server 2005 Feb CTP (aka IDW13): 50110.27
Indigo & Avalon March CTP: 50110.28
This shows that you can install all into one machine but the install order is important:
1. Install the Whidbey Framework 50110.28 from Visual Studio 2005 onto the machine
2. Install Yukon which skips the .NET Framework installation because there is already a newer version
3. Install Visual Studio
4. Install Indigo and Avalon as described in the documentation
I've tested this in a virtual machine and at least the installation worked without problems. I haven't yet tested a lot of the other stuff though.
Have fun and let me know if it works :)
Crossposted from my homepage