Pre-RTM Visual Studio 2005 Automatic Uninstall Tool
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Found via Google. Pre-RTM Visual Studio 2005 Automatic Uninstall Tool[^] It's highly recommended that you install the RTM version of Visual Studio 2005 on a clean machine. But...but...we realize a lot of people have installed some pre-release version of Visual Studio 2005, and to that end, the setup team has created our "best effort" for uninstalling the product, which is the (also unsupported) Automatic uninstall tool. A couple of notes on the uninstaller * Do not use this tool if you have installed SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Edition or higher (SQL Server 2005 Express is okay). Why? Because we don't do ref counting on who is using the Framework and you can get into a situation where the uninstall tool will remove a pre-RTM version of the .NET Framework 2.0, but SQL Server 2005 Workgroup+ will still be installed on the machine. Because Workgroup edition uses managed code, you've now "hosed" your SQL 2005 Workgroup edition uninstall. Check the product readme for step-by-step instructions * Do not click "Cancel" when the Automatic uninstall tool is running. Depending on when you click Cancel, it can "hose" your machine uninstall
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Found via Google. Pre-RTM Visual Studio 2005 Automatic Uninstall Tool[^] It's highly recommended that you install the RTM version of Visual Studio 2005 on a clean machine. But...but...we realize a lot of people have installed some pre-release version of Visual Studio 2005, and to that end, the setup team has created our "best effort" for uninstalling the product, which is the (also unsupported) Automatic uninstall tool. A couple of notes on the uninstaller * Do not use this tool if you have installed SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Edition or higher (SQL Server 2005 Express is okay). Why? Because we don't do ref counting on who is using the Framework and you can get into a situation where the uninstall tool will remove a pre-RTM version of the .NET Framework 2.0, but SQL Server 2005 Workgroup+ will still be installed on the machine. Because Workgroup edition uses managed code, you've now "hosed" your SQL 2005 Workgroup edition uninstall. Check the product readme for step-by-step instructions * Do not click "Cancel" when the Automatic uninstall tool is running. Depending on when you click Cancel, it can "hose" your machine uninstall
Nilekani (Infosys CEO): You guys told us for so many years to cut out this socialist rubbish and go to free markets. We came to free markets and now you're telling us, "Stop, don't come."
This signature was created by "Code Project Quoter".Kant wrote:
Do not use this tool if you have installed SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Edition
So are they implying that you have to do a fresh install of Windows if this is the case? What a crock...
Kant wrote:
the setup team has created our "best effort"
Another lame-ass excuse for doing a half-assed job. ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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Kant wrote:
Do not use this tool if you have installed SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Edition
So are they implying that you have to do a fresh install of Windows if this is the case? What a crock...
Kant wrote:
the setup team has created our "best effort"
Another lame-ass excuse for doing a half-assed job. ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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Kant wrote:
Do not use this tool if you have installed SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Edition
So are they implying that you have to do a fresh install of Windows if this is the case? What a crock...
Kant wrote:
the setup team has created our "best effort"
Another lame-ass excuse for doing a half-assed job. ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
Or you could probably just uninstall SQL Server 2K5 Workgroup, THEN use the tool. What would you define as a "complete" tool? One that uninstalls EVERYTHING on the machine that depends on the .NET Framework? RageInTheMachine9532 "...a pungent, ghastly, stinky piece of cheese!" -- The Roaming Gnome
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it's only a lame-ass excuse to the stupid asses that installed the pre-release software on a machine not thinking they might have to rebuild it.
Well no offense, but it does seem a little excessive, in 2005, that the installation of a development enviroment may require a *complete* re-installation of an OS to either un-install it, or install some other version. That seems kind of crazy. ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
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Found via Google. Pre-RTM Visual Studio 2005 Automatic Uninstall Tool[^] It's highly recommended that you install the RTM version of Visual Studio 2005 on a clean machine. But...but...we realize a lot of people have installed some pre-release version of Visual Studio 2005, and to that end, the setup team has created our "best effort" for uninstalling the product, which is the (also unsupported) Automatic uninstall tool. A couple of notes on the uninstaller * Do not use this tool if you have installed SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Edition or higher (SQL Server 2005 Express is okay). Why? Because we don't do ref counting on who is using the Framework and you can get into a situation where the uninstall tool will remove a pre-RTM version of the .NET Framework 2.0, but SQL Server 2005 Workgroup+ will still be installed on the machine. Because Workgroup edition uses managed code, you've now "hosed" your SQL 2005 Workgroup edition uninstall. Check the product readme for step-by-step instructions * Do not click "Cancel" when the Automatic uninstall tool is running. Depending on when you click Cancel, it can "hose" your machine uninstall
Nilekani (Infosys CEO): You guys told us for so many years to cut out this socialist rubbish and go to free markets. We came to free markets and now you're telling us, "Stop, don't come."
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Well no offense, but it does seem a little excessive, in 2005, that the installation of a development enviroment may require a *complete* re-installation of an OS to either un-install it, or install some other version. That seems kind of crazy. ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
It sounds like it's the SQL Server installation that is causing the problem. A BETA version of sql server. A BETA version where they told you, don't install this on a production machine, or any machine that you don't feel like rebuilding. All that said, rereading the original post it sounds like the big problem is in the uninstaller. It uninstalls the 2.0 framework too early in the process from the sounds of it. Point John Simmons, that does in fact sound pretty lame. Either way, I'm just rebuilding the box that I had all the pre-release stuff on tonight. Even if that installer did supposedly work, I'd probably still be rebuilding.
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Well no offense, but it does seem a little excessive, in 2005, that the installation of a development enviroment may require a *complete* re-installation of an OS to either un-install it, or install some other version. That seems kind of crazy. ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
development environment? You got "VisualStudiOS with WindowsXP plugin"!
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Well no offense, but it does seem a little excessive, in 2005, that the installation of a development enviroment may require a *complete* re-installation of an OS to either un-install it, or install some other version. That seems kind of crazy. ¡El diablo está en mis pantalones! ¡Mire, mire! Real Mentats use only 100% pure, unfooled around with Sapho Juice(tm)! SELECT * FROM User WHERE Clue > 0 0 rows returned Save an Orange - Use the VCF!
Jim Crafton wrote:
That seems kind of crazy.
I think it deserves to be listed under the category of "fuckin stupid"... ------- sig starts "I've heard some drivers saying, 'We're going too fast here...'. If you're not here to race, go the hell home - don't come here and grumble about going too fast. Why don't you tie a kerosene rag around your ankles so the ants won't climb up and eat your candy ass..." - Dale Earnhardt "...the staggering layers of obscenity in your statement make it a work of art on so many levels." - Jason Jystad, 10/26/2001
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Found via Google. Pre-RTM Visual Studio 2005 Automatic Uninstall Tool[^] It's highly recommended that you install the RTM version of Visual Studio 2005 on a clean machine. But...but...we realize a lot of people have installed some pre-release version of Visual Studio 2005, and to that end, the setup team has created our "best effort" for uninstalling the product, which is the (also unsupported) Automatic uninstall tool. A couple of notes on the uninstaller * Do not use this tool if you have installed SQL Server 2005 Workgroup Edition or higher (SQL Server 2005 Express is okay). Why? Because we don't do ref counting on who is using the Framework and you can get into a situation where the uninstall tool will remove a pre-RTM version of the .NET Framework 2.0, but SQL Server 2005 Workgroup+ will still be installed on the machine. Because Workgroup edition uses managed code, you've now "hosed" your SQL 2005 Workgroup edition uninstall. Check the product readme for step-by-step instructions * Do not click "Cancel" when the Automatic uninstall tool is running. Depending on when you click Cancel, it can "hose" your machine uninstall
Nilekani (Infosys CEO): You guys told us for so many years to cut out this socialist rubbish and go to free markets. We came to free markets and now you're telling us, "Stop, don't come."
This signature was created by "Code Project Quoter".Another proof that software (Un)installation on Windows is to copulating complicated. And that Windows Installer didn't rectify that.
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