"Fred Chateau" wrote in message ...

> A few months ago I installed Visual C# Express on my computer. I don't
> remember whether it was RC-1 or RC-2 but after a week or so I tried to
> remove it and had difficulty doing so. I followed recommendations on MSDN,
> including running a registry tool specifically designed to handle the
> clean-up problems caused by the release candidates.
>
> Eventually I wound up doing a complete repair of VS.NET 2003 Enterprise
> Edition in order to restore the file associations as well as other minor
> problems. I thought I had it fixed until an application program error
> launched the "Select Debugger" dialog which still contained a reference to
> VS.NET 2005. More importantly, the VS.NET 2005 debugger seems to run but
> the VS.NET 2003 debugger is not working.
>
> I haven't tried debugging within the VS.NET 2003 environment yet, but I'm
> assuming it's not going to be reliable since it appears some of the debug
> files have been replaced with the newer version. (In other words, it
> appears the new version was not a side-by-side install.)
>
> So, do I need to locate all of the debug files on the machine and copy the
> older version back?
>
> Or will the newer version operate reliably within VS.NET 2003?
>
> Is there an install/uninstall script to handle all of this or am I going
> to have to delete/replace registry entries?
>
> What a mess . . .
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Fred Chateau
> fchateauAtComcastDotNet
>
>