How to use Visual C++ 2005 Express and Visual Studio Express 2013 on the same computer?

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I would like to use both Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition and Visual Studio Express 2013 for Windows Desktop on the same computer. What's a good way to accomplish this?

I imagine that installing Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition on a computer that already has Visual Studio Express 2013 installed would cause unexpected errors and break the current installation, or the installation would fail automatically because there already is a newer version installed.

The reason why I want both is because there is a lot of learning material written for both the 2005 and the 2013 editions. There are more programming books written for the 2005 edition actually.

I essentially want to know how I can isolate the two and still use them both in parallel without any problems caused by conflicting files, registry keys, environment settings, etc.

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