Visual Studio .Net 2005 Beta 2 and SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 incompat

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Hello,
It looks Visual Studio .Net 200 Beta 2 and SQL Server 2005 Beta 2
installations are incompatible. I installed the SQL server first, which also
installed some version of the .Net framework 2.0 beta. Then I installed the
visual studio, it asked me to unistall the previously installed .Net
framework 2.0 beta, which I did. However much of the SQL server services and
functionality is not working any more (because failed to load packages). I
thought one of the important advantages of .Net technology was the ability to
install different versions side by side without affecting each other. Can
anyone tell me what's going on here. or some one g'd up with the
installers....
Thanks,
Musthafa
 
Hi,

Yes, they are incompatible since they use different .net framework.
There is a Sql Server 2005 CTP that comes with vs.net 2005 beta 2 and which
works just fine.
 
Manikkoth said:
Hello,
It looks Visual Studio .Net 200 Beta 2 and SQL Server 2005 Beta 2
installations are incompatible. I installed the SQL server first, which
also
installed some version of the .Net framework 2.0 beta. Then I installed
the
visual studio, it asked me to unistall the previously installed .Net
framework 2.0 beta, which I did. However much of the SQL server services
and
functionality is not working any more (because failed to load packages). I
thought one of the important advantages of .Net technology was the ability
to
install different versions side by side without affecting each other. Can
anyone tell me what's going on here. or some one g'd up with the
installers....
Thanks,
Musthafa
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It's the April CTP that you're looking for. The Beta 2's are incompatible
for reasons already cited by Miha.
If you want to download the April CTP:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...99-E74B-4AF8-90C7-FA0CA20A10C4&displaylang=en
 
Best advice: Never, never depend on uninstalls to work until the product is
shipped. When working with the betas, use a VPC or (far) better yet, use
Ghost or another imaging program to revert back to a known "uncontaminated"
base that does not contain any of the beta software. I've seen batch files
and such that supposedly clean up the system but I have not had much luck
with them. I can restore the XP base in a matter of minutes and reinstall a
new build in about 3 hours. As you make changes to the XP configuration,
keep notes so next time you restore the base, make these adjustments and
re-Ghost. It also seems to help if you do a disk defrag and erase to 0
before ghosting if you want to improve performance--but I don't it does not
save that much time.

hth

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