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We're looking at the setup issues

Hi--

This is a quick note to let you know that we've heard all your feedback about the Web download & setup and we're looking into what improvements/fixes we can make. Thanks for all your feedback and patience here. We'll keep you informed.

Paul

Published Thursday, July 01, 2004 10:32 AM by VSExpress

Filed under: Download, Install & Registration

Comments

Coding Dog said:

Yep. I have Whidbey PDC version installed to my PC. I uninstall it completely and after that try to install Visual Basic Express. There is some problem now, Express installation ask me to uninstall .NET prerequisites. Don't know how to uninstall them. VS.NET PDC Whidbey installation give does not help.

July 2, 2004 7:21 AM

Dan Vallejo [Microsoft] said:

Alpha and PDC builds of Visual Studio 2005 (Whidbey) used to install a component called Setup Runtime Files that does not appear in Add/Remove Programs. It has been removed from setup in later builds, but setup is checking for the existence of this component and asking that it be uninstalled before allowing installation of more recent builds.

Resolution:

Open a cmd prompt and type the following:

msiexec /x {4DA0DC5F-5E58-4FC0-A508-56E90AC5AAC7}

July 2, 2004 4:50 PM

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