Some problems?

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this but as it's the Visual C# forum I figured I would do it here.

I've searched since around 11:00 PM (it's now 4:00 AM) for a fix to my problem. Apparently I used to have Visual C# Express Edition and MSDN Express Edition both installed and somehow I messed everything up, now preventing me from installing Visual C# again. I have no way to uninstall these, I've run multiple "clean-up" tools, one worked but returned errors when it got to Visual C# and MSDN, which were:

Error 1316.A network error occured while attempting to read from the file: c:\WINDOWS\Installer\msdnexp.msi

AND

Error 1316.A network error occured while attempting to read from the file: c:\WINDOWS\Installer\vcssetup.msi

I've searched the net for both of these MSI packages to see if I could manually replace them, but in vain. I've tried everything I can think of and everything I've found on the net about these problems and I'm honestly stuck.

I had the idea of possibly repairing the old installs but I have no old MSIs to use for it.

I hope someone is able to help me out here. I've provided everything I can think of providing for someone to help me fix the problem and I hope it's sufficient, but if it isn't please leave a reply with the information you'd like to obtain and I will shortly reply back with it. I'll check the post when I wake up. Everyone, thanks in advance.



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Some problems?

  • Aleksei Vassiljev

    I can't uninstall them, that's part of the problem.


  • mbkasi

    What happens when you try to uninstall   We had the same problem, to fix we did the following:

    Uninstall MSDN
    Uninstall VS.NET
    Uninstall .NET 2.0
    Reinstall in reverse order

    Josh

  • Ernst b

    What happens when you try to uninstall the programs

  • Rainer Jeschor

    I receive the following errors:

    Error 1316.A network error occured while attempting to read from the file: c:\WINDOWS\Installer\msdnexp.msi

    AND

    Error 1316.A network error occured while attempting to read from the file: c:\WINDOWS\Installer\vcssetup.msi


  • Gooom

    Okay everyone, I deleted all the old registry entries for VC# and MSDN Express and it worked.


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