#VISUAL STUDIO 2008 INSTALL WITHOUT 3.5 INSTALL#
#VISUAL STUDIO 2008 INSTALL WITHOUT 3.5 MANUAL#
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#VISUAL STUDIO 2008 INSTALL WITHOUT 3.5 ISO#

#VISUAL STUDIO 2008 INSTALL WITHOUT 3.5 INSTALL#

Unfortunately, there is an uninstall list of sorts, buried as little memos in all the separate install packages – something like “install SQLServer before dot net 2” or whatever… It would be VERY nice if they had an uninstall routine that did what it said on the tin. next step is another reboot and to install the VS2008 sp1… It’s just finishing off the MSDN Library as I type. updates, in case any were part of the cleaning process removed all the bits for Nero Burning software(v6 for me).removed all traces of VS using the above tools – again!.1 to 3.5 using the M$ tool dotnetfx_cleanup_tool.zip I decided to just install the “Professional” edition which has all I need for now.

#VISUAL STUDIO 2008 INSTALL WITHOUT 3.5 ISO#

I’m not sure but it looks like I’ve got two corrupted ISO downloads of the Team thingy.

Remove “Microsoft Visual Studio 64bit Prerequisites Beta” (64-bit platforms only).

Remove “Microsoft Visual Studio Codename Orcas Remote Debugger”.

Remove “Microsoft Document Explorer 2005 Language Pack” (non-English editions only).

Remove “Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime 3.0”.

Remove “Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Runtime Language Pack” (non-English editions only).

Remove “Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Runtime”.

Remove “Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component / Microsoft Web Designer Tools”.

Remove “Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK R2 for Smartphone”.

Remove “Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK R2 for Pocket PC”.

Remove “Microsoft Visual Studio Performance Collection Tools”.

Remove “Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 for Devices”.

Remove “Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 Design Tools”.

Remove “Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5”.

Remove “MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008”.

Remove any remaining supporting products in the specified order.

Remove all instances of Visual Studio 2008/Codename Orcas products.

Go to the Control Panel and launch Add/Remove Programs.

#VISUAL STUDIO 2008 INSTALL WITHOUT 3.5 MANUAL#

And for those with Asperger syndrome, here’s the list: Manual uninstall instructions There are also links from the above for getting rid of VS2005 properly as well. This page also has a handy tool, a bit like the Symantech Tool for removing Norton, inspiringly called UninstallTool.exe I won’t supply the link, it’s on the page.

#VISUAL STUDIO 2008 INSTALL WITHOUT 3.5 FULL#

Uninstalling Visual Studio 2008 – this is for full versions of VS2008. Uninstalling Previous Versions of Visual Studio 2008 – this is for pre-release versions of VS2008 Only people with Asperger syndrome are going to remember this, so here’s are some links. The key, is to think like Microsoft help staff and uninstall previous installations in a specific order. There are literally trainloads of disgruntled Microsoft developers all fiddling around and getting more and more irate with M$.Įventually I came upon my solution, and I think it’s the one that will work, which comes from the MSDN website, but not from the help!!! Granted, a google search puts it top of the list, but if you are a developer and you know you’ve done something wrong and thus thinking as a developer, type “clean up prior to installing visual studio 2008” into Google gives all the wrong answers. So I rolled back and started manually uninstalling things I thought would conflict… Each install kicked out soon into the process.Īfter some time and heavy head scratching, I decided to google for something. The first time I ended up with a weird install that disabled the windows firewall and made the taskbar look odd.

Now, on the home PC, I’ve tried 4 installs and it kicks out each time early on in the install process. So I downloaded at home, which was a lot faster.

oh, dear.Īfter a lengthy download of the ISO image which is nearly 4Gb, it burned apparently okay, but informed me a cab file was corrupt on the install. They use the Team Foundation Server Developer Edition. Recently, I’ve had trouble with Visual Studio. As part of my day job, I get a (extremely valuable, it must be said, for which I’m very grateful) MSDN subscription.

Visual studio 2008 install without 3.5