"gandecoe" wrote:

> I know that my entry which follows is rather long and complicated, but I am
> hoping someone can offer helpful recommendations to my two questions at the
> bottom.  I have tried to research this and figure it out on my own, but I am
> far from a computer SME, especially when it comes to behind-the-scenes stuff,
> and am afraid to attempt doing this on my own, out of fear of screwing my
> situation up beyond repair.  I have followed one  recommendation from someone
> in a Microsoft forum, but have not received a response in quite some time to
> a question I posed regarding the current status.   I felt I should pass along
> all the information I can, thus the length and complexity of this message.
> So here’s my situation…
>
> I have several versions of Visual Studio on my machine, and am looking to
> uninstall EVERYTHING  correctly to ensure a good installation of newly
> purchased Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition thereafter.  I have found
> several entries on the MS site (such as
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718687.aspx and
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa718704.aspx) which recommend how
> to remove previous installations, however, there are some differences in
> their recommended order of removal of individual components.  On my PC are:
>
> Visual Studio .NET
>                 Microsoft Development Environment 2002   (Version 7.0.9466)
>                 Microsoft NET Framework 1.0   (Version 1.0.3705)
>                 Installed Products:
>                          Microsoft Visual C#.NET
>
> Visual Studio .NET 2003
>                 Microsoft Development Environment 2003   (Version 7.1.3088)
>                 Microsoft NET Framework 1.1      (Version 1.1.4322 SP1)
>                 Installed Products:
>                      Microsoft Visual Basic.NET
>                      Microsoft Visual C#.NET
>                      Microsoft Visual C++.NET
>                      Microsoft Visual J#.NET
>                      etc.    
>
> Visual Studio 2005 – Team Suite edition trial download for which the
> evaluation period ended, so I am unable to obtain environment information via
> opening the program.
>
> Here is the list of programs/components on my PC displayed by the ADD/REMOVE
> PROGRAMS utility.  I have indicated before each component the version of
> Visual Studio to which I believe it belongs.  Please note that I do have SQL
> Server 2000, and if possible, would prefer to NOT have to uninstall it, as I
> have several working databases on it:
>
> (2002)    "Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 1.0 SP3 Developer"
> (2005)    "Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0"
> (2002)    “Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 Hotfix (KB930494)”     
> (2002)    “Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 Hotfix (KB887998)” 
> (2003)    “Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1”
> (2003)    “Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Hotfix (KB928366)”         
> (2005)    "Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0"
> (2005)    “Security Update for Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 (KB928365)” 
> (????)    "Microsoft Device Emulator version 1.0 – ENU"”
> (2005)    "Microsoft Document Explorer 2005" 
>              "Microsoft SQL Server 2000"
> (2005)    “Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Mobile [ENU] Developer Tools” 
> (2005)    "Microsoft SQL Server Native Client"
> (2002)    “Microsoft Visual C#.NET Standard - English"
> (2003)    "Microsoft Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package 1.1"
> (2005)   "Microsoft Visual J# Redistributable Package 2.0"
> (2003)    “Microsoft Visual Studio .NET Enterprise Architect 2003 – English”
>
> (2005)   "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite - ENU”
> (2005)   “Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite – ENU Service Pack 1
> (KB926601)             (2005)   “Security update for Microsoft Visual Studio
> 2005 Team Suite – ENU
>                  (KB937061)   
> (2005)   "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for Office System 2005 Runtime"
> (2005)   "MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005 BETA”
>
> (2003)    "Microsoft MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB936181)   
> (2003)    "Microsoft MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB927978)
> (2003)    "Microsoft MSXML 4.0 SP2 (KB925672)   
>
> Following the Microsoft forum's recommendation, I used ADD/REMOVE programs to
> remove SQL Server 2005, which resulted in the following components being
> removed from the ADD/REMOVE programs list:
>
> (2005)   "Microsoft SQL Server 2005”
> (2005)   "Microsoft MSXML 6.0 SDK and Parser"
> (2005)    Microsoft SQL Server VSS Writer       (version 9.00.3042.00)
> (2005)    Microsoft SQL Server Setup Support Files (English)    (version 9.00.
> 3042.00)
>
> Now my questions....
>
> 1)  I've tried to figure out why  “Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Mobile [ENU]
> Developer Tools” is still on my machine, and I'm not sure how best to remove
> it.  Oddly, although it's listed in ADD/REMOVE programs, the Windows folder
> contains only another folder labeled "Samples", which in turn contains only a
> third folder holding a .zip file named NorthWindOleDb.zip. 
>
> There was no error message output to the screen by the removal of Sql Server
> 2005, but the MSDN article in the knowledge base states that "if these steps
> did not uninstall all the components", to follow a series of subsequent steps
> "Make sure that the Microsoft SQL Server Setup Support Files component is
> installed...double-click the Servers\setup\sqlsupport.msi file on the
> original SQL Server 2005 installation media."  The problem is that I have a
> trial download, and the disc I created to hold it causes my machine to freeze
> up when I insert it in the drive.  There was no error message output to the
> screen by the removal of Sql Server 2005, so, should I just use Add/Remove
> programs to remove it from my machine (without the presence of Setup Support
> Files), or would deleting the folder via Windows Explorer be OK?
>
> 2) Can I retain SQL Server 2000 and have a successful installation of VS 2005
> Pro Edition, which is supposed to have SQL Server 2005 included?     (per
> MSDN it's apparently OK for "Microsoft SQL Server Native Client" to currently
> be on my machine...: "Do not uninstall the Microsoft SQL Server Native Client
> component if you have SQL Server 2000 components installed.")
>
> Thanks in advance for your time and help!
>
>