I have a BIDS 2008 on my machine, My production is SSIS 2005.
Currently gettting BIDS 2005 is a bit difficulty.
Can I use BIDS 2008 as BIDS 2005?
I have seen couple of such instance in Microsoft technology. In Visual Studio 2010 we can target an older framework. Even IE 8 we could make it work as IE 7 so I thought this might be possible for BIDS.
The link in the answer by kzhen refers to SSRS not SSIS, but it's the same for SSIS as well, see here:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb522577(v=sql.100).aspx
Design packages in Business Intelligence Development Studio. You have to use the SQL Server 2008 version of Business Intelligence Development Studio to develop and maintain packages that are based on SQL Server 2008 Integration Services. Likewise, you have to use the SQL Server 2005 version of Business Intelligence Development Studio to develop and maintain packages that are based on SQL Server 2005 Integration Services. You can load and run packages that were developed in SQL Server 2005 Integration Services in the SQL Server 2008 version of Business Intelligence Development Studio. However, if you save your changes, the packages are saved in the package format that SQL Server 2008 Integration Services uses. Once saved in the format that SQL Server 2008 Integration Services uses, packages can no longer be opened in the SQL Server 2005 version of Business Intelligence Development Studio, nor run by the SQL Server 2005 Integration Services tools.
