visual express install
I want to get Visual Express software. I followed instructions to manually uninstall the previous beta 1 versions before downloading beta2. But you did not tell me the order was important until too late. I uninstalled the old .Net framework beta 1 somewhere in the middle. Then, hoping to correct the error, I used the tool you provided to uninstall, but it did not prevent the problem that came. I then download 6 hours of .net framework beta2 and c# beta2, both express. Then I install these per instructions, but got the following error message --
Package 'Visual Studio Common IDE Package' has failed to load properly ( GUID= {6E87CFAD-6C05-4ADF-9CD7-3B7943875B7C}). Please contact package vendor for assistance. Application restart is recommended, due to possible environment corruption. Would youlike to disable loading this package in future? You may use 'VCSExpress /resetskippkgs' to re-enable package loading.
This keeps repeating. I tried the fix tool for this problem given on your website. It totally uninstalled all the new beta 2 software. My 6 hour download gone down the tube!! Why didn't you tell that was going to happen? Why not make a tool that just fixes the problem without erasing a 6 hour download?
I still do not know if I have corrected the orginal problem caused by out-of-order uninstalling beta1.
So now what should I do? Surely there is some way for me to insure that I do not repeat this problem, going thru the same loop again with its 6 hour download.
Yea I know I should get DSL or other wideband ISP, but that costs $50 monthly where I live.
Help please.
Frustrated!
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ch] at [2007-12-17]
To answer my own question -- I went into the registry and deleted everything that seemed to be associated with visual studio 7, keeping that associated with visual studio 8. That fixed my problem, though I have done only limited tests so far.
There is a fundamental problem. Software is written to scatter entries hither and yon into the registry, with no apparent rules or benefits. Uninstall does not eliminate these entries. Subsequent software checks for prior entries and shuts down if it finds them. Why? A little more discipline is needed in writing the code. I offer this as a helpful product suggestion. For an ordinary consumer it is quite troublesome. In other words KISS.
ch
ch at 2007-9-9 >
