VS 2005 Uninstall Instructions (updated version)
If you decide to manually uninstall without using the tool, be sure to uninstall the .NET Framework 2.0 last.
Note: The tool will uninstall ALL pre-release Visual Studio 2005 editions such as Visual Studio Express, Visual Studio Team System, Professional and Standard edition.
Uninstalling Previous Versions of Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions
- Go to the Control Panel and launch Add/Remove Programs
- Remove "DMA Transport Update for VS 2005 Beta2"
- Remove "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express Edition"
- Remove "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Tools Express Edition"
- Remove "Microsoft SQL Native Client"
- Remove "Microsoft MSDN Express Library 2005 Beta"
- Remove all Microsoft Visual Studio Express Editions (such as Visual C# 2005 Express Edition Beta)
- Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Remote Debugger Light"
- Remove "Microsoft Visual J# .NET Redistributable 2.0 Beta Language Pack" (This step is not needed if you have only the English Edition)
- Remove "Microsoft Visual J# .NET Redistributable Package 2.0 Beta"
- Remove "Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Beta Language Pack" (This step is not needed if you have only the English Edition)
- Remove "Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Beta"
Uninstalling Previous Versions of Visual Studio 2005
- Go to the Control Panel and launch Add/Remove Programs
- Remove "DMA Transport Update for VS 2005 Beta2"
- 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 Visual Studio Tools for Office System 2005 Runtime Language Pack" (This step is not needed if you have only the English Edition)
- 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 .NET Compact Framework 1.0"
- Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional" or other related installs (such as Visual Studio Professional/Standard/Enterprise Architect/Team Suite, etc.)
- Remove "Microsoft Document Explorer 2005 Language Pack" (This step is not needed if you have only the English Edition)
- Remove "Microsoft Document Explorer 2005" (This step is needed for post-Beta2 builds)
- Remove "Microsoft SQL Mobile 2005 Development Tools"
- Remove "Microsoft 64-bit SDK" (This step is only needed if Visual Studio is installed on a 64-bit machine)
- Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Remote Debugger (x64)" (This step is only needed if Visual Studio is installed on a 64-bit machine)
- Remove "Microsoft MDAC 2.8 SP1" (This step is needed only if you are running Windows 2000)
- Remove "Microsoft MSXML 6 SDK and Parser"
- Remove "Microsoft Visual J# .NET Redistributable 2.0 Beta Language Pack" (This step is not needed if you have only the English Edition)
- Remove "Microsoft Visual J# Redistributable Package 2.0 Beta"
- Remove "Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Beta Language pack" (This step is not needed if you only have the English Edition)
- Remove "Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 Beta"