No, that is not the point. The point is the RTM version of the Framework
hoses the BETA version of Express or other .NET BETA products. It is one in a
long line of "I installed the release Framework and it hosed my BETA [fill in
the blank] product" threads throughout the .NET online newsgroups.
If you uninstall everything and then install the RTM products you should not
have a problem. I would read the readme, just in case, if you ever had a Beta
product on the machine, but you should not have any problem.
I am currently installing RTM of both SQL Server 2k5 and Visual Studio 2k5
and have had no problems (nearly through VS 2k5 install). I had betas of both
on this machine and completely uninstalled them.
Is it possible that you might still have a problem? Certainly. The main way
to avoid all risk is to completely toast the machine and start all over, but
the time it costs to do so may not be worth it when the risk of problems is
as low as it is.
NOTE: There is one caveat I can think of. Some of the earliest builds (CTPs
primarily) did not uninstall properly. If you are playing with a pre-beta 2
build, consult read mes to insure you have a clean OS to start building on.
--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA
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Think Outside the Box!
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"Fred Mellender" wrote:
Am I to understand from this thread that if I uninstall (in my case, C#
Express) beta, as well as the beta of .Net Framework 2.0, and the MSDN
Express Library 2005 beta, all via the Windows XP Add-or-Remove Programs,
then I might still have trouble installing the commercial version of VS
2005, Professional?
"Mike Schilling" <ms*************@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:e3**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
"Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]" <mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com> wrote
in message news:OV**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl... vbMark,
Yeah, you probably shouldn't have done that. The current
recommendation is to install everything on a clean machine.
There is also a long list of things you need to do to uninstall the
previous beta versions. However, there is an unsupported tool that will
help with this. This link should help (watch for line wrap):
http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archi...27/485863.aspx
Jon, do you see now why I don't want to install 2.0 just to look at the
docs? :-)