The Visual Studio 11 Beta contains MVC 4 beta. You can also install Visual Studio 2010 and the MVC 4 for that release on the same machine as Visual Studio 11.
The items that were not compatible are the following:
- If you have Visual Studio Developer Preview installed on the machine you could not on the same machine have Visual Studio 2010 and the MVC 4 Beta for that release installed.
So basically if you want to run the Beta of MVC 4 you can't have Visual Studio Developer Preview on the machine. All the other combinations work.
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Marked as answer by DazWilkin on Apr 12, 2012 04:26 PM
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VS11 and MVC 4
Mar 27, 2012 04:18 AM|LINK
Screwed up my VS11 installation by uninstalling .NET 4.5 to install MVC 4 beta.
Questions:
If these are incompatible, why does the ASP.NET MVC 4 page list a VS 11 beta that includes MVC 4?
Can I have MVC 4 beta incompatible with .NET 4.5 and VS11 requiring .NET 4.5 installed side-by-side?
Am I alone in finding the documentation incomplete/inconsistent in this regard?
Thanks!
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Re: VS11 and MVC 4
Mar 28, 2012 02:17 AM|LINK
hi Dazwilkin,
As far as I am concerned, ASP.NET MVC 4 and ASP.NET 4 is compatible with VS 2011. Likewise, ASP.NET 4 and ASP.NET MVC 3 is compatible with VS 2010.
If you mentioned that it is incompatible, would you please advise the error message you see on your end? Thanks!
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Re: VS11 and MVC 4
Mar 28, 2012 02:46 AM|LINK
The MVC 4 release notes claim incompat with .NET 4.5
http://www.asp.net/whitepapers/mvc4-release-notes
And I believe VS11 requires 4.5.
I don't understand how the MVC page lists a VS11 Beta that includes MVC 4 and just seeking advice so as not to screw up my machine.
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Re: VS11 and MVC 4
Apr 12, 2012 05:59 AM|LINK
The Visual Studio 11 Beta contains MVC 4 beta. You can also install Visual Studio 2010 and the MVC 4 for that release on the same machine as Visual Studio 11.
The items that were not compatible are the following:
- If you have Visual Studio Developer Preview installed on the machine you could not on the same machine have Visual Studio 2010 and the MVC 4 Beta for that release installed.
So basically if you want to run the Beta of MVC 4 you can't have Visual Studio Developer Preview on the machine. All the other combinations work.
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