Two questions about installing Visual Studio 2010 (Beta 2)

Question 1: Can I开发者_运维技巧 work with Visual Studio 2008 while installing it?

Question 2: Can I download the whole thing somewhere (but as an installable file or files, not an ISO)?

I know it's theoretically better not to run anything while it installs. But my download speed is extremely slow, and it's wasting a lot of time waiting for this thing to finish.

1. Probably, but if there were any problems with the installation it would be tough to know whether using VS2008 during the installation was the source of the problem.

2. Probably not. There are tons of free ISO mounters out there, if that's your concern. Downloading the install as a bunch of files wouldn't be faster. If you're having problems downloading the ISO, look into using a download manager.

You cant run VS2008 while installation. Setup process will ask you at some point of installation to close any version of VS running on system.

The only option of full download in ISO, just burn a DVD and use it.

The only option for downloading 'the whole thing' is to download the ISO. You can find free ISO extractors. Just extract the ISO, and install from there.

I wouldn't recommend running VS2008 when installing it. The install doesn't take that long. It does require 2 reboots during install though, which might be quite disruptive when you're trying to work