Oh what fun this was
I got a great idea to install Visual Studio 2008 Team Edition Database so I could generate test data. I’ve used the tool before but it’s been a long time. I already had Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio 2008 loaded, so didn’t know how to go about doing the ‘upgrade’. I asked my good friend Tom Davis of Sogeti USA LLC if he’d uninstall VS 2008 Pro first and then Team Database or just install it, which he quickly replied “ah, just install it right over”. Uh, great guess partner. Epic fail! It didn’t work. Not only that, now I can’t uninstall Team Database. Oh Joy! So now I’m left to the wills of Google! to figure this out. Thanks much, Tom. Anyway, so I”m getting the following error:
I quickly find a few blogs, which leads me here and here. I find a really great tool that people have been ranting and raving about – the Automated Uninstall Tool – which is located here. Yes this little gem of an exercise is so special that they created a dedicated page in MSDN and a little .exe no less to make it happen. Wow! Wished they have spent the effort on the built-in uninstall rather than this these other efforts. Anyway, the tool didn’t work, and the links to manually uninstall didn’t work either. And now reading closer, I see the caveat “this is officially not supported". Ugh.
So I scour the control panel and 1) uninstall everything that even smells Visual Studio 2008, even more than in the uninstall list, and 2) I uninstall VS 2005, 3) reboot, and 4) go back and use the provisioning tool again. And this time it worked!!! Ok Tom, I will let you slide this time. (Plus, I wasn’t going to mention, but VS 2008 Team Database and SQL 2008 are not yet compatible – version 10.0 errors galore, it doesn’t know all of the new data types such as date and hierarchy. WTF?).
Lee
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I can’t believe King of the Hill’s last show is tonight
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