Installing 3rd update caused VS2008 to revert to oldest version

[csh1]

Context:

Vista Ultimate x64

Intel Fortran 10.1.019, 10.1.021, 10.1.024

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Problem:

I have been installing updates on top of previous installations. With the installation of a third update (v10.1.024), VS2008 reverted to using the oldest version I had installed (v10.1.019).

I could not find any option in VS2008 to select the compiler version. The menu optionTools > Options > Intel Fortran > Compilersmentioned in the documentation (...v10.1.024w_fc_p_10.1.024_INSTALL.htm) does not exist in VS2008.

The apparent fix was touninstall the oldest version. After doing that, VS2008 automatically started using the latest compiler version.

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Questions:

Should I have the menu item mentioned above in my VS2008 environment?

I initially installed the compiler before integration with VS2008 was available, so I installed the VS2005 version that came with the compiler. Can I safely remove that now? Worried that uninstalling it will remove the compiler integration from VS2008 too.

What is the best practice for installing compiler updates? It appears that one should uninstall all but one version prior to installing an update.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Yes, that option should be there in VS2008. I generally find it's ok to remove the older compiler version afterward. Yes, you can uninstall VS2005 Premier Partner Edition using Add or Remove Programs. Sometimes it does not fully uninstall, in which case you can use the "Windows Installer Cleanup Utility" to do so (do a Google search on that.)

[csh1]

I went ahead and uninstalled VS2005 Premier Partner. I removed the following components:

Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Premier Partner Edition
Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable
Microsoft Document Explorer 2005

Was not sure about these, so I left them:

Visual Studio .NET Prerequisites - English
Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Second Edition Runtime

It did not break VS2008 compiler integration.

[csh1]

Doh! It would help if I clicked the "Show all settings" checkbox on the Tools->Options menu.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Where is this "Show all settings" checkbox? I can't find it.

[csh1]

In VS2008 RTM, Tools->Optionsat the lower leftunder the ListBox.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Interesting - that checkbox is not present in the two VS08 installs I have, one Standard Edition, one Team System Edition.

[TimP]

Nor in the one I got from MSDN account download.