It was a nightmare to have this installed and working!!! For all previous versions, since the alpha version, I used a Virtual PC. And now that the product went RTM I decided that it was time to install it on my productive machine.
I had not installed any piece of alpha nor beta software on my productive environment before starting the installation of Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite.
I ran the setup with default options except the location of the folder to install. Everything went fine till the end and then I had a strange message about Office 2003 missing SP2 and PIA… It was proposed that I run VSTOR.EXE manually.
Running VSTOR.EXE I get an error message saying that I need to uninstall “Visual Studio .NET prerequisites - English”, but I don’t had that as an option in the Add/Remove.
From the support page (http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/express/support/uninstall/) I downloaded the uninstall tool, even if I never installed beta version before. Running it, it does uninstall SQL Server 2005 Express, then I get this error:
The following task did not complete successfully:
Uninstall Visual Studio
components
I then decided to uninstall and try to re-install, I did it two times with some operations in between. No way still not working. I started to be really really pissed off.
To cooooool down I decided to get some music: Jack Johnson - In Between Dreams, really really cool. Thanks Mathieu.
Then I went with regedit to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall\ and started to uninstall stuff with msiexec /x {guid}
I finally managed to be able to install VSTOR.EXE after installing .Net Framework 2. Then a full re-install of Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite without SQL Server 2005 Express that I installed by hand and also with several trial before being successful.
I finally have a development environment again and I can go on with the development of Tech Head Brothers in ASP.NET 2.0 and the new version of the publishing tool based on Word 2003.
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