Cannot Uninstall VWD Express  
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Jazzbo





PostPosted: Installing and Registering Visual Studio Express Editions, Cannot Uninstall VWD Express Top

I downloaded and installed VWD Express about 5 weeks ago...used it and decided to spring for the full-blown Visual Studio package.

I decided to uninstall VWD Express, but it won't let me. It returns the following message:

:"Setup is unable to determine a valid ordering for the installation. See the error log for further details."

The error log says:

[02/04/06,00:24:34] Dependency Manager: [2] CDependencyManager::ValidateDependencyStates() : Parental dependency is not satisfied for component Visual Web Developer. Parent dependencies can't be in removing mode.
[02/04/06,00:24:34] Dependency Manager: [2] CDependencyManager::ValidateDependencyStates() : Parental dependency is not satisfied for component Visual Web Developer. Parent dependencies can't be in removing mode.
[02/04/06,00:24:36] setup.exe: [2] ValidateAndCorrectTheInstallOrder() failed in ISetupManager::BuildInstallOrders()
[02/04/06,00:24:37] setup.exe: [2] ISetupManager::BuildInstallOrderFromList() failed in ISetupManager::BuildInstallOrders()
[02/04/06,00:24:37] setup.exe: [2] ISetupManager::BuildInstallOrders() failed in ISetupManager::RunLoadSetup()

I'm afraid that's all Greek to me. I ran the repair installation option and tried to uninstall again, but got the same results. I have never installed any of the beta versions of the software, and VWD Express seems to work just fine, so I'm not sure why I can't uninstall. I did at one point download and install the VS Express C# version to compile something with, and it uninstalled just fine. Any ideas



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PeteL - MSFT





PostPosted: Installing and Registering Visual Studio Express Editions, Cannot Uninstall VWD Express Top

Hi!

There is a great blog post about uninstalling at

http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/10/27/485987.aspx that might be worth checking out.

The best place for asking ASP.NET questions is on the ASP.NET community site, and in the forums there. Check out http://www.asp.net/welcome.aspx tabindex=1&tabid=39.

HTH,

PEte



 
 
Mike OTW





PostPosted: Installing and Registering Visual Studio Express Editions, Cannot Uninstall VWD Express Top

I have exactly the same problem uninstalling VWB and VJ# as Jazzbo. The link to the blog is invalid.

I also have had no beta installed. Also tried repair of both etc.

Help


 
 
DemonEyesKyo





PostPosted: Installing and Registering Visual Studio Express Editions, Cannot Uninstall VWD Express Top

I had this error for VC express, so I'm going out on a limb and hoping this works for VWD as well.  Instead of repairing, I choose "add optional components" or whatever the add optional things button says (this was, sadly, an accident), and Graphical IDE was an option, which I found kind of strange since I was pretty sure that had been installed. I had it install the IDE, and then tried uninstalling again, and it worked perfectly. Hope this helps.

DEK


 
 
Claudio Benghi





PostPosted: Installing and Registering Visual Studio Express Editions, Cannot Uninstall VWD Express Top

The above link is failing just because the following word "that" seems to be part of the link.
Actual link should be:
http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/10/27/485987.aspx
Bye,
Claudio