Installation oddies with Beta 2 of languages

[Dann Corbit]

Several fascinating problems have occurred with attemped installations of the
latest beta 2 versions of the .NET languages (including VC++).

mscorsvw.exe has been using 99% of my CPU for 17 hours. More than one
billion page faults have occurred. Here is an image of the Windows Task
Manager:
ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/mscorsvw-is-not-my-friend.jpg

In addition, I am now in a remarkable catch-22 situation. Somehow, the one
beta product that did not get removed during my following of the installation
instructions for the new products was "Microsoft MSDN Express Library 2005
Beta - English"
and yet the .NET 2.0 Beta was removed. So, when I try to remove the product
"Microsoft MSDN Express Library 2005 Beta - English" it crashes every time.

There seems to be no way to remove that product from my machine.

Interestingly, it is also impossible to install any of the new tools while
that product is still installed.

I suggest that the installations of these tools can be improved.

[Jochen Kalmbach [MVP]]

Hi Dann!

There seems to be no way to remove that product from my machine.

Interestingly, it is also impossible to install any of the new tools while
that product is still installed.

I suggest that the installations of these tools can be improved.

No. I suggest that you should be aware of the word "beta"!

--
Greetings
Jochen

My blog about Win32 and .NET
http://blog.kalmbachnet.de/

[Dann Corbit]

"Jochen Kalmbach [MVP]" wrote:

Hi Dann!

There seems to be no way to remove that product from my machine.

Interestingly, it is also impossible to install any of the new tools while
that product is still installed.

I suggest that the installations of these tools can be improved.

No. I suggest that you should be aware of the word "beta"!

Point taken. I certainly can expect strange happenings when installing beta
products. For that reason, I installed on a secondary machine rather than my
normal development box.

Be that as it may, I do hope that there is some way to recover other than
"reformat"

Has anyone a useful notion as to how I may move forward?

[Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]]

Dann Corbit wrote:

"Jochen Kalmbach [MVP]" wrote:

Hi Dann!

There seems to be no way to remove that product from my machine.

Interestingly, it is also impossible to install any of the new
tools while that product is still installed.

I suggest that the installations of these tools can be improved.

No. I suggest that you should be aware of the word "beta"!

Point taken. I certainly can expect strange happenings when
installing beta products. For that reason, I installed on a
secondary machine rather than my normal development box.

Be that as it may, I do hope that there is some way to recover other
than "reformat"

Has anyone a useful notion as to how I may move forward?

1. Get the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility.
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;290301

2. Delete the installer packages for all of the .NET 2.0 and VS 2005
products installed on your machine.

3. Delete all of the directories where .NET 2.0 or VS 2005 products were
installed.

4. Reboot

5. Re-install

If that doesn't work, you're down to nuking it from space - it's the only
way to be sure.

-cd

[Dann Corbit]

"Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]" wrote:

Dann Corbit wrote:

"Jochen Kalmbach [MVP]" wrote:

Hi Dann!

There seems to be no way to remove that product from my machine.

Interestingly, it is also impossible to install any of the new
tools while that product is still installed.

I suggest that the installations of these tools can be improved.

No. I suggest that you should be aware of the word "beta"!

Point taken. I certainly can expect strange happenings when
installing beta products. For that reason, I installed on a
secondary machine rather than my normal development box.

Be that as it may, I do hope that there is some way to recover other
than "reformat"

Has anyone a useful notion as to how I may move forward?

1. Get the Windows Installer Cleanup Utility.
http://support.microsoft.com/default...b;en-us;290301

2. Delete the installer packages for all of the .NET 2.0 and VS 2005
products installed on your machine.

3. Delete all of the directories where .NET 2.0 or VS 2005 products were
installed.

4. Reboot

5. Re-install

If that doesn't work, you're down to nuking it from space - it's the only
way to be sure.

Unfortunately, I installed:
WindowsInstaller-KB884016-v2-x86.exe
as recommended by the SQL*Server beta.

It seems that this is incompatible with other tools, such as the "Windows
Installer Cleanup Utility."

If I should somehow become bold/loony enough to try again to install the
betas, is it a bad idea to install the SQL beta together with the .NET betas?

If so, then I would suggest moving the SQL beta to another area, or
mentioning the incompatibility.

If not, then procedures which can be followed even by a nitwit would be nice
for nitwits like me.

[Carl Daniel [VC++ MVP]]

Dann Corbit wrote:

If that doesn't work, you're down to nuking it from space - it's the
only way to be sure.
Unfortunately, I installed:
WindowsInstaller-KB884016-v2-x86.exe
as recommended by the SQL*Server beta.

It seems that this is incompatible with other tools, such as the
"Windows Installer Cleanup Utility."

Bummer. Hopefully they'll produce an updated version of the cleanup tool.

If I should somehow become bold/loony enough to try again to install
the betas, is it a bad idea to install the SQL beta together with the
.NET betas?

No, they're fine together, but make sure you only install "matched sets"
(e.g. VS 2005 beta 2 and SQL Server 2005 April CTP), and always install SQL
Server first.

-cd