C++ question for upgrade

One of my client is upgradign from XE to E811. E811 require .net 2003 to be installed , where as xe uses Visual studio 6.0.

How does this upgrade works. Do i upgrade this c++ to .net first and then begin my upgrade . Is there a sequence of sstpes which needs to be followed. Doe sit have any impact on the normal workign of the system if the compilier is change on deployment and enterprise server ( mosresepcifically) on day to day working. I am assuming we will not build any mor pacakge in XE.

We are in NT sql environment.

Any input will be help ful

I haven't tried it, but it would be interesting to see if you could have both on the machine. E1 finds the compiler by the settings in the JDE.INI file, so in theory, as long as .NET doesn't write over any shared files, and you install it to a different location, the machine should use whatever compiler the .INI is pointing to.

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