| Subject: Visual Studio Installation |
| Group: microsoft.public.msdn.general |
| Date: 4/30/2008 3:51:22 AM |
| From: "Gene Berger" [Email Address Protection] |
This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_000A_01C8AA8E.9A374310 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I downloaded the evaluation Visual Studio 2008 edition from MS's site = and installed it. My 90 days are just about up. I purchased a MSDN Premium subscription which obviously has Visual = Studio in it. I don't want to necessarily uninstall my existing VS installation = because I don't know what it will delete on the system. Do you just = install the VS from my MSDN subscription over the existing installation? I am in middle of a project and really hate to screw-up my system. ------=_NextPart_000_000A_01C8AA8E.9A374310 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; = charset=3Diso-8859-1"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.6000.16643" name=3DGENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" size=3D2>I downloaded the = evaluation Visual=20 Studio 2008 edition from MS's site and installed it. My 90 = days are=20 just about up.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" size=3D2>I purchased a MSDN Premium = subscription=20 which obviously has Visual Studio in it.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" size=3D2>I don't want to necessarily = uninstall my=20 existing VS installation because I don't know what it will delete on the = system. Do you just install the VS from my MSDN subscription over = the=20 existing installation?</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" size=3D2>I am in middle of a project and = really hate=20 to screw-up my system.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" size=3D2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face=3D"Courier New" = size=3D2></FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML> ------=_NextPart_000_000A_01C8AA8E.9A374310-- |
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| Subject: Re: Visual Studio Installation |
| Group: microsoft.public.msdn.general |
| Date: 4/30/2008 2:16:21 PM |
| From: Gerry Hickman [Email Address Protection] |
Hi, You will screw up your system more if you don't uninstall it first. You should never upgrade an operating system, software or drivers over the top of old ones. For an o/s you should wipe the whole boot drive, do a block level scan in the SCSI BIOS for bad sectors, re-create the boot loader and partitions then re-load the o/s. For software you should uninstall, check the registry for any left-overs then install the new one. Visual Studio is one of the few software titles that is designed properly for windows, in that it respects the user's home directory and separates settings into the user profile. Gene Berger wrote: > I downloaded the evaluation Visual Studio 2008 edition from MS's site and installed it. My 90 days are just about up. > > I purchased a MSDN Premium subscription which obviously has Visual Studio in it. > > I don't want to necessarily uninstall my existing VS installation because I don't know what it will delete on the system. Do you just install the VS from my MSDN subscription over the existing installation? > > I am in middle of a project and really hate to screw-up my system. > > -- Gerry Hickman (London UK) |
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