I often, not to say always, get the news from
Didier (yeah you start to be old also ;)
and I really like the mixed tape so I decided to post about it.
Mercedes
Benz released its 10th version of the Mixed Tape. Still for free. Download here. Now, you can
also find a weekly podcast :-)
[Via
Didier
Beck's Weblog]
Starting 1st of January 2006 I will work, as a Senior Solution Architect, for the ecenter solutions, a new company of the Helvetia Patria Group, located in Zurich - Switzerland created this morning, on December 23, 2005.
Congratulations to my old friend Didier who made the spin-off a reality. Read more about it here.
Go on www.google.com, type in the search
box: miserable failure, then click on the button I'm feeling lucky, and see
where do you get :-) (http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html)
It was a nightmare to have this installed and working!!! For all previous
versions, since the alpha version, I used a Virtual PC. And now that the product
went RTM I decided that it was time to install it on my productive machine.
I had not installed any piece of alpha nor beta software on my productive
environment before starting the installation of Visual Studio 2005 Team
Suite.
I ran the setup with default options except the location of the folder to
install. Everything went fine till the end and then I had a strange message
about Office 2003 missing SP2 and PIA... It was proposed that I
run VSTOR.EXE manually.
Running VSTOR.EXE I get an error message saying that I need to uninstall
"Visual Studio .NET prerequisites - English", but I don't had that as an option
in the Add/Remove.
From the support page (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/uninstall/)
I downloaded the uninstall tool, even if I never installed beta version before.
Running it, it does uninstall SQL Server 2005 Express, then I get this
error:
The following task did not complete successfully:
Uninstall Visual Studio
components
I then decided to uninstall and try to re-install, I did it two
times with some operations in between. No way still not working. I started to be
really really pissed off.
To cooooool down I decided to get some music: Jack
Johnson - In Between Dreams, really really cool. Thanks Mathieu.
Then I went with regedit to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\
and
started to uninstall stuff with msiexec /x {guid}
I finally managed to be able to install VSTOR.EXE after
installing .Net Framework 2. Then a full re-install of Visual Studio 2005
Team Suite without SQL Server 2005 Express that I installed by hand and also
with several trial before being successful.
I finally have a development environment again and I can go on
with the development of Tech Head Brothers in ASP.NET 2.0 and the new version of
the publishing tool based on Word 2003.
[ Currently Playing : Better Together - Jack Johnson - In Between
Dreams (03:28) ]