You should *never* expect early betas of any product to play nicely and not
FarkleT other things on a system. You also shouldn't expect early betas to
provide any reliable measure or indication of how or if a finished product
will work "side by side" They are only intended to give us some early
exposure to the new platform's capabilities and changes.
Take it from someone who's been beta testing stuff from MS and others for
almost 30 years: things can and will go wrong, and often not give you any
indication until it is the most inopportune moment for you.
MS clearly warns against attempting to run betas on machines that are also
being used for production work. Furthermore, the first betas of VS2005 are
not licensed for go-live. You use them at your own risk and peril. If you
find interoperatibli ty and compatibility issues, post bug reports where
appropriate on the website, and use the beta discussion groups to share the
gorey details. Furthermore, beta issues should not be discussed in the
released product newsgroups.
All this said, at least the uninstaller does a pretty good job of
clearing-out the beta bits and registry changes. To set things aright, use
control panel to uninstall the VS2005 products, and .Net 2.0 Framework. You
will also need to run repair on (or reinstall) your existing VS2003
installation and the 1.1 Framework. If you had SQL Server 2000 or its
client utils on your machine, you will need to reinstall that as well if you
installed SS2005.
If you must test the beta side-by-side with a production scenario, build a
separate box that is exclusively for that purpose, and that it doesn't
matter if you have to punt it.
Alan
"David L Wright II" <dl******@radik s.net> wrote in message
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And If I happen to be testing out how the two products work on the same
machine???????? ?????
"David L Wright II" <dl******@radik s.net> wrote in message
news:OP******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP10.phx.gbl... Does anyone know when building a msi file under VB.Net 2003, it would
try to install something from the VS 2005 Beta 1? I have both products
installed.
Thanks,