Uninstall of Visual Studio 2005 beta causes problems for Visual Studio 2003

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Scott W. - 12 May 2004 15:22 GMT

After I uninstalled a preview copy of Visual Studio 2005 my version of
Visual Studio 2003 had problems. Specifically I am unable to add any
new items, classes, components, etc. to a Visual Studio project. When
I try to add an item I get "unspecified error".
I have run the repair option on Visual Studio 2003 twice now, with no
luck.

Does anyone know how to fix this?

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Carlos J. Quintero [MVP] - 13 May 2004 10:45 GMT

I suppose that it's too late, but Visual Studio 2005 is not even in beta and
the CD cover warns not to install it in a production computer, or to install
it on a computer where you don?t mind to reformat the hard drive ...

If the repair does not work, uninstall it and re-install it from scratch. It
could be that VS.NET 2005 unregistered some ActiveX DLLs, and the repair of
VS.NET 2003 does not re-register them because they are already present in
the hard disk.

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> After I uninstalled a preview copy of Visual Studio 2005 my version of
> Visual Studio 2003 had problems. Specifically I am unable to add any
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> Does anyone know how to fix this?

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Scott W. - 14 May 2004 01:26 GMT

> I suppose that it's too late, but Visual Studio 2005 is not even in beta and
> the CD cover warns not to install it in a production computer, or to install
> it on a computer where you don´t mind to reformat the hard drive ...

Clearly they weren't kidding about that.

> If the repair does not work, uninstall it and re-install it from scratch.

I've tried this. It doesn't work either...

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Bart - 09 Jul 2004 11:15 GMT

Hi Scott,

Did you solve this problem?
I've have exact the same problem (except I didn't install vs2005)

Thanks
Bart

> > I suppose that it's too late, but Visual Studio 2005 is not even in beta and
> > the CD cover warns not to install it in a production computer, or to install
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> I've tried this. It doesn't work either...

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