Can't repair Microsoft Document Explorer 8.0 - wrong Framework version

I had a problem installinmg the June CTP of VS 2005 Team Suite, so I reverted back to Beta 2. I now have a faulty Microsoft Document Explorer 8.0 throwing exceptions, and when trying to repair it, I am informed that the Fx is not installed. When looking at the install.ini file in folder "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Help 8\Microsoft Document Explorer 8.0" I find it still addresses Fx ver. X86=2.0.50601 when in fact I now have X86=2.0.50215. All the .dll's etc are also of ver. 2.0.50601.

Question:

Is there an easy way to reinstall just the Microsoft Document Explorer 8.0 to get the correct version?

[691 byte] By [Adec] at [2008-2-5]

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# 1

Can you trying the following?

1. Uninstall Microsoft Document Explorer from Add/Remove program.
2. Repair VS 2005 beta2.

Hopefully, this should put old version of dexplore on the machine.

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Saurabh

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SaurabhJainMSFT at 2007-9-9 >

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# 2

I'm afraid it was considerably more complicated. I retrospect, I believe I should have simply reformatted and reinstalled the whole machine. To relatively succesfully come to terms with my problems, I have had to dig deep into both file system and registry. After an unsuccesful attempt to install VS 2005 Team Suite June CTP together with SQL 2005 June CTP, I found remnant files and registry entries left all over after uninstalling both.

I still have one problem left. VS 2005 B2 and SQL 2005 June CTP seems to work fine together, but just about every single time I close the VS 2005 IDE, an exception is thrown. It doesn't seem to cause any havoc, except that from being extremely annoying. So if you can come up with a suggestion what could be causing this, I would be grateful.

Adec at 2007-9-9 >

# 3

Can you tell us the text of the exception and the call stack for it?

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SaurabhJainMSFT at 2007-9-9 >

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