If VS2010 ends up hosing Vista. . .
It happens to the best of us, right?
OK, OK, I should be using VM for things like this but I admit that I was so excited to test VS2010 that I jumped right on the Web install from Microsoft.
At first everything was fine.
I use two Vista SP2 systems, Ultimate for my Webcasts and Expression Studio plus VS2008 and SQL Server 2008. . .
Thing is...I tested VS2010 on my Vista Home Premium machine. . .Which I actually like a lot more than the Ultimate system, especially the way the UAC works, better.
Yes as you can tell by the title above things did start going haywire, possibly because I test just about everything Microsoft sends me. ;-)
All of a sudden everything in my Office 2007 apps started bombing out with .NET erorrs, including Outlook Pro 2007. (My poor RSS feeds.)
At the same time I got an offer from Microsoft to beta test Microsoft Security Essentials. (Which I love so far.)
Once installed I was getting the same .NET errors. . .
MSVCR100.dll was not found
\v4.0.20506\mscoreei.dll could not be loaded
Most of the time these were recursive error dialogs and you could not escape them, you know, Cancel, Close, Cancel, Close...Grrrr
So I should have Repaired the .NET framework, right? I did, multiple times, or at least tried. The Repair and Uninstall functions would all rollback.
Look at the logs, right? Yup, and Oh my gosh! I could fall asleep reading those logs. :-)
What I did was uninstall VS2010 and reinstall it. Errors gone. Office apps back, MSE working.
Then this morning I see the very helpful post pasted below by Stephen Boots, in the Microsoft Social forums:
To remove a corrupt .Net Framework install, use this tool: http://astebner.sts.winisp.net/Tools/dotnetfx_cleanup_tool.zip
The download of .Net Framework 2.0 can be found here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&displaylang=en
To repair .Net Framework 2.0 and 3.0 on Vista, see this blog entry:
http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2007/03/26/how-to-repair-the-net-framework-2-0-and-3-0-on-windows-vista.aspx
Note that after repairing or reinstalling .Net Framework, you will need to reapply the .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 update via Windows Update.
Wow. . .This is one of those times when we really need tips like that. ;-)
All the best,
Mark
http://twitter.com/msftwise