Remove old Frameworks ok?

[joe_pool_is]

Is there any point in keeping the old .NET Frameworks on my PCs?

 

I have v2.0 installed, and I have no projects that currently require v1.0 or v1.1.

 

Is the new framework backwards compatible for installed programs that were compiled using the older versions?

 

Also, I am thinking about uninstalling VS 2002 and VS 2003 now that I have VS 2005, since they each eat up about 1GB of HD space. Will VS 2005 handle most of the old code that I come across (with minor code syntax corrections in some cases)? I presume VS 2005 will prompt to convert projects like VS 2003 did when it encountered older VS 2002 projects.

 

Any thoughts on the subject? If there are older threads that address and resolve these issues, feel free to reference them. I did a search, but mostly saw threads dealing with the BETA pre-releases.

[snarfblam]

One thing that should be pointed out is that if you want to target version 1 or 1.1 of the framework, you will generally need the appropriate version of VS.