The new .NET 2.0 redistributable broke C#.

[vbMark]

Hello,

(C# 2005 Express Beta)

I just installed the newly released .NET 2.0 redistributable, and now when
I try to start a solution it crashes.

Is there a fix for this that does not include reinstalling the IDE?

Thanks!

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[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

vbMark,

Yeah, you probably shouldn't have done that. The current recommendation
is to install everything on a clean machine.

There is also a long list of things you need to do to uninstall the
previous beta versions. However, there is an unsupported tool that will
help with this. This link should help (watch for line wrap):

http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2005/10/27/485863.aspx

Hope this helps.

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

(C# 2005 Express Beta)

I just installed the newly released .NET 2.0 redistributable, and now when
I try to start a solution it crashes.

Is there a fix for this that does not include reinstalling the IDE?

Not that I know of. You should install the released version of the IDE,
so you're no longer using betas at all. Surely that's a better
situation anyway, isn't it?

Jon

 

[Mike Schilling]

vbMark,

Yeah, you probably shouldn't have done that. The current
recommendation is to install everything on a clean machine.

There is also a long list of things you need to do to uninstall the
previous beta versions. However, there is an unsupported tool that will
help with this. This link should help (watch for line wrap):

http://blogs.msdn.com/danielfe/archive/2005/10/27/485863.aspx

Jon, do you see now why I don't want to install 2.0 just to look at the
docs?

 

[Fred Mellender]

Am I to understand from this thread that if I uninstall (in my case, C#
Express) beta, as well as the beta of .Net Framework 2.0, and the MSDN
Express Library 2005 beta, all via the Windows XP Add-or-Remove Programs,
then I might still have trouble installing the commercial version of VS
2005, Professional?

 

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

Fred,

I would say yes, you might, but you will DEFINITELY have problems if you
don't. Why you would want to keep the betas on your machine, I don't know.

 

[Guest]

RTM works with RTM. RC works with RC. Beta works with Beta (provided it is
the right version of beta). C# Express Beta is Beta, so it works with Beta
Framework, not RTM.

You can still command line compile the stuff you did in beta, but will have
to uninstall the Framework and reinstall the beta Framework or, better, get
the RTM version of Express and install with the RTM Framework. You should
completely clear everything .NET 2.0 related before moving forward.

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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[Guest]

No, that is not the point. The point is the RTM version of the Framework
hoses the BETA version of Express or other .NET BETA products. It is one in a
long line of "I installed the release Framework and it hosed my BETA [fill in
the blank] product" threads throughout the .NET online newsgroups.

If you uninstall everything and then install the RTM products you should not
have a problem. I would read the readme, just in case, if you ever had a Beta
product on the machine, but you should not have any problem.

I am currently installing RTM of both SQL Server 2k5 and Visual Studio 2k5
and have had no problems (nearly through VS 2k5 install). I had betas of both
on this machine and completely uninstalled them.

Is it possible that you might still have a problem? Certainly. The main way
to avoid all risk is to completely toast the machine and start all over, but
the time it costs to do so may not be worth it when the risk of problems is
as low as it is.

NOTE: There is one caveat I can think of. Some of the earliest builds (CTPs
primarily) did not uninstall properly. If you are playing with a pre-beta 2
build, consult read mes to insure you have a clean OS to start building on.

--
Gregory A. Beamer
MVP; MCP: +I, SE, SD, DBA

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Think Outside the Box!
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[vbMark]

Hello,

(C# 2005 Express Beta)

I just installed the newly released .NET 2.0 redistributable, and now
when I try to start a solution it crashes.

Is there a fix for this that does not include reinstalling the IDE?

Thanks!

I ended up uninstalling the new 2.0 and went back to the beta.

All is well now.

Thanks.

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