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Arpan - 23 Nov 2004 09:27 GMT

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Peter van der Goes - 23 Nov 2004 14:03 GMT

I want to uninstall Visual Studio.NET 7.0 from my system. How do I do it? I tried uninstalling it from "Add/Remove Programs" but couldn't do so because whenever I click the "Change/Remove" button corresponding to VS.NET, the Visual Studio.NET Setup window pops-up with the 3 options - Windows Component Update, Update Visual Studio.NET & Check for Service Releases but there isn't any provision to uninstall VS.NET!

Please note that I am working on Windows 2000 Professional.

Thanks,

Arpan

Shot in the dark, but have you tried selecting the Update Visual Studio .NET option to see if you get another menu which includes an uninstall option?
I've not had Visual Studio .NET 2002 for a long time, so my memory of it is not good, but for Visual Studio .NET 2003, a sequence similar to the above gets me an uninstall option.

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Arpan - 23 Nov 2004 21:46 GMT

Thanks, Peter, for your suggestion but that doesn't help me out. Selecting the "Update Visual Studio.NET" option opens a small window saying "Setup is loading installation components. This may take a minute or two" & after sometime, it closes automatically! Strangely the description corresponding to this option says that one can uninstall Visual Studio.NET using that option!!

Any other workaround?

Thanks once again,

Regards,

Arpan

"Arpan" <arpan_de@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:uOp4W7T0EHA.2540@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
I want to uninstall Visual Studio.NET 7.0 from my system. How do I do it? I tried uninstalling it from "Add/Remove Programs" but couldn't do so because whenever I click the "Change/Remove" button corresponding to VS.NET, the Visual Studio.NET Setup window pops-up with the 3 options - Windows Component Update, Update Visual Studio.NET & Check for Service Releases but there isn't any provision to uninstall VS.NET!

Please note that I am working on Windows 2000 Professional.

Thanks,

Arpan

Shot in the dark, but have you tried selecting the Update Visual Studio .NET option to see if you get another menu which includes an uninstall option?
I've not had Visual Studio .NET 2002 for a long time, so my memory of it is not good, but for Visual Studio .NET 2003, a sequence similar to the above gets me an uninstall option.

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Peter [MVP Visual Developer]
Jack of all trades, master of none.

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Peter van der Goes - 24 Nov 2004 13:27 GMT

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mdavidjohnson - 06 Dec 2004 17:55 GMT

I have tried both the removal procedures you note but I still get the
following errors on attempted installation after removal:

A failed installation has been detected. Press OK to uninstall the product.
Then retry installing.

Setup is complete.

There were warnings generated during setup.

View error log

[12/02/04,10:29:32] setup.exe: [2] Value (directory) from
g_szRegvalSuiteLocation doesn't exist in CSetupManager::RemoveSetupFiles()
[12/02/04,10:29:32] setup.exe: [2] CSetupManager::RemoveSetupFiles() failed
in CSetupManager::RunInstall()

and the installation will not continue. Is there any way around this?

> Thanks, Peter, for your suggestion but that doesn't help me out. Selecting the "Update Visual Studio.NET" option opens a small window saying "Setup is loading installation components. This may take a minute or two" & after sometime, it closes automatically! Strangely the description corresponding to this option says that one can uninstall Visual Studio.NET using that option!!
>
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> Peter [MVP Visual Developer]
> Jack of all trades, master of none

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Peter van der Goes - 07 Dec 2004 16:01 GMT

> I have tried both the removal procedures you note but I still get the
> following errors on attempted installation after removal:
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>
> and the installation will not continue. Is there any way around this?

Not that I know of. I'm stumped. Three possible courses:
1. repost here citing all details and current status in the hope that
somebody else with the necessary expertise/experience will address your
situation.
2. Contact Microsoft tech support , citing an installation incident.
3. (Probably least palatable) format your hard drive, reinstall your OS and
go from there.
Sorry not to be more help.

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mdavidjohnson - 10 Jan 2005 17:19 GMT

In MSDN Newsgroups' dotnet.general, Nick Malik of Microsoft pointed me to
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318913 which solved the problem.

> > I have tried both the removal procedures you note but I still get the
> > following errors on attempted installation after removal:
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> go from there.
> Sorry not to be more help.

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Peter van der Goes - 10 Jan 2005 22:40 GMT

> In MSDN Newsgroups' dotnet.general, Nick Malik of Microsoft pointed me to
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/318913 which solved the problem.

Thanks very much for sharing the solution!
I'll keep that one on file.

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