If you have installed previous versions of Visual Studio 2005, such as Beta 1 or Community Technical Preview (CTP) builds of Visual Studio Team Suite, Visual Studio Standard or Visual Studio Professional, then you must uninstall the pre-Beta2 components in the exact order below before beginning to install any version of Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2.
- Go to the Control Panel and launch Add/Remove Programs
- Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional" or other related IDE installs such as (Visual Studio Professional/Standard/Enterprise Architect/Team Suite, etc.)
- Remove "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition"
- Remove "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Tools Express Edition"
- Remove "Microsoft SQL Native Client"
- Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio 64bit Prerequisites Beta"
- Remove "Microsoft MSDN Express Library 2005 Beta"
- Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office System 2005 Runtime Beta"
- Remove "Microsoft Device Emulator 1.0 Beta"
- Remove "Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0 Beta"
- Remove "Microsoft SQL Mobile 2005 Development Tools"
- Remove "Microsoft Visual J# Redistributable Package 2.0 Beta". If you receive an error message, see Note 1.
- Remove "Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Beta". If you receive an error message, see Note 2
Notes:
- If you see an error removing J# .NET Redistributable Package 2.0 from Add/Remove Programs, please run "msiexec /x {9046F10C-F5E7-4871-BED9-8288F19C70DF}" from a command line window
- 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