My mistake: VS2010 to VS2013 is OKAY

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19-Nov-13

So I was wrong. I thought that the errors I got from installing Visual Studio 2013 was due to the absence of Visual Studio 2012. I was wrong.

In one of the PCs I tried to install Visual Studio 2013 without Visual Studio 2012. That means I only have Visual Studio 2010. And boy, having these old desktops can cause a lot of confusion sometimes. It did, and I thought that the errors coming up one after another, they were all due to the “jump” from VS2010 to VS2013.

I was wrong.

While installing Visual Studio 2013, some errors came, mostly about SQL-related, and I just either retried the installation (modify or repair), until a restart was mandated. The installation continued after the reboot, until it was fully completed.

I called up VS2013, and when it opened nicely without any hesitation or problem, I was satisfied. When I was able to install updates, it was when I was completely assured that the installation was okay, or that I am able to “jump” from VS2010 to VS2013. I was wrong; dead wrong.

And only after my insatiable curiosity got the better of me did I find out about it, that I was wrong, and now, I am righting that mistake.
Jump from VS2010 to VS2013 is okay; it is possible.

Till then!

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Don’t jump: VS2010 to VS2013

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1 November 2013


Visual Studio 2010

I have been using Visual Studio 2010 for quite some time now, and seeing Visual Studio 2012 and having some hands-on with this version gave me some inspiration.

So imagine my excitement when I came across Visual Studio 2013! One thing that got me hooked (immediately) is the Code Lens extension. And that is just the extension…

I now continued my reading of Beginning ASP.NET 4.5 in C# and VB eBook, but I decided to use VS2013. I noticed right away that web site project creates 3 files, and the code-behind file, which is only one in previous versions, are now 2: the program code and the designer code.

I thought right away that Visual Studio has something new to offer, so that I started to clean up one other PC that I use for development, sort of back-up.

Clean-up done, where much old data files were discarded, and the disks were resized, and even repartitioned, I salvaged some space for Visual Studio 2013.

Then, I got some errors during the installation. As always the promise, Microsoft will try to fix it.

Retry, same error, same message. Retry, same error, same message. And finally, retry… same error, same message.

I looked (finally, some serious scrutiny) of the packages having error in the installation, and my immediate guess is that these files I do not know, and owing to the very close release dates of Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2013, I guessed that these files must be from Visual Studio 2012. The other confirming factor to this wild guess is the installer package size – VS2012 has a bigger installer than VS2013.

Visual Studio 2012

I now digressed to installing Visual Studio 2012. As earlier thought, the installation went through without a single glitch.

Setup completed. Product launched. Updates applied. Done!

Visual Studio 2013

Coming back to Visual Studio 2013, the installation was then retried, and this time, there was no error that came up. Setup completed in a jiffy!

Product launched. Updates were installed. And now, I have a back-up machine that runs Visual Studio 2013.

Lesson learnt: Don’t jump (you cannot jump) from Visual Studio 2010 to Visual Studio 2013. Do Visual Studio 2012 first. They have done much in the in-between years…

Till then!

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