Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 if you’ve already installed Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and you don’t want to flatten your box.

aaronru — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:57:00 GMT

If you evaluated Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1, you will be happy to hear that no reformatting is required. Additionally, a simple path exists to upgrade Beta2 on the same machine. It involves uninstalling your Visual Studio 2010 Beta1 product and then installing one of the Visual Studio 2010 Beta2 offerings.

Given the nature of pre-release software, there may be a few pre-steps needed to ensure success, depending on what operating system you are using or what you have installed on your machine.

Here is a quick guide to upgrading to Beta 2. (These steps need to be performed in this order).

1. If you have Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 installed: go to Add/Remove Programs and uninstall Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 1 Object Model.

2. If you have Silverlight SDK 3 installed:, go to Add/Remove Programs and uninstall it. (It's often installed with Expression Suite 3 or as an add-on to Visual Studio 2008).

3. Everyone: Go to Add/Remove Programs, Uninstall Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1,

4. If you are using Vista RTM or SP1, or Windows Server 2008 RTM: then go to Add/Remove Programs and uninstall .NET Framework 4. That would include any associated langpacks, Extended, and Client, in that order.

Everyone: Now Install Visual Studio Beta 2!

For full details about these issues, you can read the official Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 ReadMe here.

See the following help documentation link for more information on how to install and maintain Visual Studio Beta 2.

Uninstalling the Framework

aaronru — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 17:54:00 GMT

I've been noticing that quite a few of you are having issues uninstalling a framework when partially installed or when it has been corrupted.

If you can get to the framework origininal installation package then that would be very helpful. A central location to get these downloads would be: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/netframework/aa569263.aspx

Then after you've got the installation package on your machine, execute it. what happens is that the installation will go into what is known as the maintenance mode. It will give you the option to repair and uninstall the framework.

Repairing and then uninstalling the framework in this manner normally will fix most of the issues that we've seend.

For those of you who are using 3.0, we've released a 3.0 prerelease clean up tool, which should help you put your machine into a clean state.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=AAE7FC63-D405-4E13-909F-E85AA9E66146&displaylang=en

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Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 if you’ve already installed Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 and you don’t want to flatten your box.

Uninstalling the Framework