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Uninstall Visual Studio 2005 Beta 3 Additional Components

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These are the instructions displayed at the end of the VSTS Beta 3 uninstall process:

Additional components might have been installed on your computer by Visual Studio during setup. These components must be manually uninstalled using Add or Remove Programs in the order listed below.

Note: Uninstalling these components might affect other applications you have installed that rely on these components.

The following components might have been installed with Visual Studio:

  1. Microsoft MSDN 2005 Express Edition
  2. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Runtime Language Pack
  3. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office Runtime
  4. Microsoft Device Emulator version 1.0
  5. Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 1.0
  6. Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0
  7. Microsoft SQL Mobile 2005 Development Tools
  8. Microsoft Visual J# 2.0 Redistributable Package
  9. Microsoft Visual J# 2.0 Redistributable Language Pack
  10. Microsoft Document Explorer 2005
  11. Microsoft Document Explorer 2005 Language Pack
  12. Microsoft Data Access Components 2.8 SP1 (Only on Windows 2000)
  13. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 64bit Prerequisites (Only on 64bit)
  14. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 SDK (x64) (Only on 64bit)
  15. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Remote Debugger (x64) (Only on 64bit)
  16. Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Remote Debugger Light (x64) (Only on 64bit)

The following components might have been installed with SQL Server Express, and need to be removed in the order listed below:
Note: Uninstall of the SQL Express instances will leave behind the user-created databases, which can then be re-attached to the new instance.

  1. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express CTP
  2. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Tools CTP
  3. Microsoft SQL Server Setup Support Files
  4. Microsoft SQL Native Client

The following components must be uninstalled last:

  1. MSXML 6.0 Parser and SDK (only on 32bit)
  2. MSXML 6.0 Parser and SDK x64 (Only on 64bit)
  3. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Language Pack
  4. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0

Comments

  • Anonymous
    March 15, 2006

    Today is the day! Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 are now available for download by MSDN subscribers....