Uninstalling previous Visual Studio 2005 betas to prepare to install beta 2

re: Uninstalling previous Visual Studio 2005 betas to prepare to install beta 2

Heath Stewart — Sun, 17 Apr 2005 11:12:15 GMT

Personally, I'd rather just delete my VHD profile and start over from my base image. Beta 2 is definitely rock solid and I don't foresee too many problems, but you just can't beat the isolation of Virtual PC.

Good advice as always though, Aaron.

Visual Studio 2005 and .NET Framework 2.0 beta 2 now available

Aaron Stebner's WebLog — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 08:11:38 GMT

I know I'm a little late jumping on this particular bandwagon and posting a blog item about it, but just...

re: Uninstalling previous Visual Studio 2005 betas to prepare to install beta 2

damien morton — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 12:11:34 GMT

Im getting the messages you describe, "unable to lead package xxx", but nothing in the error logs with source SideBySide.

In addition, beta 2 doesnt seem to allow me to use the repair option, nor do I seem to be able to uninstall.

Bleh.

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Erik Dibbern Röser — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 13:00:11 GMT

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re: Uninstalling previous Visual Studio 2005 betas to prepare to install beta 2

astebner — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:06:55 GMT

Damien - can you use Windows Explorer to check and see if there are any files/folders named *VC80* in your %windir%\WinSxS folder. If so can you check the version of any files in those folders? If they do not match the VS 2005 beta 2 version number (8.0.50215.45) then please delete the folders and try to run repair for VS 2005.

Also, you mentioned that VS 2005 beta 2 repair did not work for you. Could you please briefly describe exactly where you went to try to invoke the repair? It should launch correctly if you use the Add/Remove Programs entry for VS 2005, or if you run the setup.exe in the Setup subdirectory on the VS 2005 installation CD/DVD.

re: Uninstalling previous Visual Studio 2005 betas to prepare to install beta 2

damien morton — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:32:01 GMT

Steps I have followed:

Install beta 2 -> package load failures
check WinSxS - rename *.VC80.* to *.VC80.*.temp
attempt repair option - clicking repair link has no effect
Install beta 2 -> package load failures
Run beta removal tool
Install beta 2 -> package load failures
*.dll files in WinSxS subdirctories have version 8.0.50215.44
delete WinSxS/*.VC80.* directories
Repair/Reinstall beta 2... 2 hours and several reboots later...

Attempt to start up VS.2005.beta2 ->

The application or DLL C:\WINNT\system32\MSVCR80.dll is not a valid Windows image. Please check this against your installation diskette.

re: Uninstalling previous Visual Studio 2005 betas to prepare to install beta 2

damien morton — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 12:33:32 GMT

Oh one last thing - after the final step, the dlls in WinSxS/*.VC80.*/ have version number 8.0.50215.44

re: Uninstalling previous Visual Studio 2005 betas to prepare to install beta 2

astebner — Sat, 23 Apr 2005 02:02:52 GMT

Damien, if you haven't already, please try to use the updated cleanup tool that I posted last night. You can find it at http://astebner.sts.winisp.net/Tools/vs2005_beta_cleanup_tool.zip. Thanks!

re: Uninstalling previous Visual Studio 2005 betas to prepare to install beta 2

anon — Fri, 20 May 2005 16:28:51 GMT

I am trying to uninstall .NET 2.0 Beta 2 but the VS 2005 Beta 2 installer still tells me its installed. Its not in Add/Remove Programs, or is listed with msicuu Can you tell me the product code for .NET 2.0 Beta 2 so I can msizap it
MTIA

re: Uninstalling previous Visual Studio 2005 betas to prepare to install beta 2

astebner — Fri, 20 May 2005 17:37:48 GMT

The product code for the .NET Framework 2.0 beta 2 is {7A1ADD0C-17F3-47B8-B033-A06E189C835D}.

For anyone interested, you can install Orca from the Windows Installer Platform SDK or directly from http://www.winisp.net/astebner/bin/orca.msi. Then you can extract the MSI from the .NET Framework beta 2 setup package by running dotnetfx.exe /t:c:\temp /c. Then right-click on c:\temp\netfx.msi and choose Edit with Orca. Finally, go to the Property table and look at the Product Code value.

re: Uninstalling previous Visual Studio 2005 betas to prepare to install beta 2

Gary Goodwin — Sun, 22 May 2005 00:41:05 GMT

I had the same error about the Toolbox not being available. After Installing and uninstalling 3 times I deleted the *VC80* files
(1 of them wouldnt delete so i had to go to safe mode). I then ran the Uninstall utility and reinstalled. It works! Thanks

Gary

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Uninstalling previous Visual Studio 2005 betas to prepare to install beta 2

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re: Uninstalling previous Visual Studio 2005 betas to prepare to install beta 2

re: Uninstalling previous Visual Studio 2005 betas to prepare to install beta 2

re: Uninstalling previous Visual Studio 2005 betas to prepare to install beta 2

re: Uninstalling previous Visual Studio 2005 betas to prepare to install beta 2

re: Uninstalling previous Visual Studio 2005 betas to prepare to install beta 2

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