Hi Joe,

Based on my understanding, the issue is that you need to upgrade some
computers installed with Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition to VS.net
2005 Developer Edition. If I misunderstand anything on this, please let me
know.

To successfully upgrade to Developer Edition, you'd completely remove the
Professional Edition first. The proper steps are: 1) Remove all SQL Server
2005 products, 2) Run the auto-uninstall tool, or manual uninstall the Pro
version as below. 3) Install the new Dev version.

The auto-uninstall tool: (I'd recommend you use this auto-uninstall tool
which is the most convenient.)
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=47598

Manually Uninstalling Previous Versions of Visual Studio 2005

1.  Go to the Control Panel and launch Add/Remove Programs.

2.  Remove "MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005 Beta.

3.  Remove "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition."

4.  Remove "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Tools Express Edition."

5.  Remove "Microsoft SQL Native Client."

6.  Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio 64bit Prerequisites Beta." (This step
is needed only if Visual Studio is installed on a 64-bit machine.)

7.  Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office System 2005 Runtime
Language Pack." (This step is not needed if you have only the English
Edition.)

8.  Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office System 2005 Runtime
Beta."

9.  Remove "DMA Transport Update for VS 2005 Beta 2."

10. Remove "Microsoft Device Emulator 1.0 Beta."

11. Remove "Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0 Beta."

12. Remove "Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 1.0."

13. Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional" or other related IDE
installs (such as Visual Studio Professional/Standard/Enterprise
Architect/Team Suite, etc.).

14. Remove "Microsoft Document Explorer 2005 Language Pack." (This step is
not needed if you have only the English Edition.)

15. Remove "Microsoft Document Explorer 2005." (This step is needed for
post-Beta2 builds.)

16. Remove "Microsoft SQL Mobile 2005 Development Tools."

17. Remove "Microsoft 64-bit SDK." (This step is only needed if Visual
Studio is installed on a 64-bit machine.)

18. Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Remote Debugger (x64)." (This step
is needed only if Visual Studio is installed on a 64-bit machine.)

19. Remove "Microsoft MDAC 2.8 SP1." (This step is needed only if you are
running Windows 2000.)

20. Remove "Microsoft MSXML 6 SDK and Parser."

21. Remove "Microsoft Visual J# .NET Redistributable 2.0 Beta Language
Pack." (This step is not needed if you have only the English Edition.)

22. Remove "Microsoft Visual J# Redistributable Package 2.0 Beta."

23. Ensure all Visual Studio 2005 products have been removed from your
system.

24. Remove "Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Beta Language pack." (This step is
not needed if you have only the English Edition.)

25. Remove "Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Beta."

More detailed information can be found in the lastest installation
instruction document:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/support/readme/

If you meet any problem in the process, please don't hesistate to update in
the newsgroup.

Happy New Year!

Best regards,

WenJun Zhang
Microsoft Online Partner Support

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