Dave Bost

Hey Subscribers. Be sure to uninstall any Beta1 or CTP builds with the steps from the download page! Be sure to uninstall the .NET Framework last!

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Uninstalling Visual Studio Team Suite, Visual Studio Standard or Visual Studio Professional Editions
Before installing Visual Studio Team Suite Beta2, Visual Studio Standard Beta2 or Visual Studio Professional Beta2, if you have Visual Studio 2005 Beta1 or Community Technology Preview (CTP) builds, the following steps must be followed in order to uninstall the pre-Beta 2 components.
Go to Control Panel and launch Add/Remove Programs, and remove the following:
1. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition
2. Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Tools Express Edition
3. Microsoft SQL Native Client
4. Microsoft Visual Studio 64bit Prerequisites Beta
5. MSDN Product Documentation
6. Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office System 2005 Runtime Beta
7. Microsoft Device Emulator 1.0 Beta
8. Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0 Beta
9. Microsoft SQL Mobile 2005 Development Tools
10. Microsoft Visual J# Redistributable Package 2.0 Beta (If you see an error removing J# Redistributable Package from Add/Remove Programs, please run "msiexec /x {9046F10C-F5E7-4871-BED9-8288F19C70DF}" from a command line window)
11. Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Beta (If you see an error removing .NET Framework 2.0 from Add/Remove Programs, please run "msiexec /x {71F8EFBF-09AF-418D-91F1-52707CDFA274}" from a command line window)