How to uninstall .NET 2.0 beta?

Hi,

Since I have no clue where to post this, I'm taking a chance and post my question here. If this is not the right place, please tell me what is.

It appears that the .NET 2.0 redistributable package is finally available here:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx FamilyID=0856eacb-4362-4b0d-8edd-aab15c5e04f5&DisplayLang=en#related.

When I try to install it, I get the message that I should uninstall the beta version first.

However, I have not found how to do that. Can someone help me out

Regards,

Guido

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How to uninstall .NET 2.0 beta?

IndControl
Go to the Add/Remove programms and remove Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0(including compact FW)
Shinyzhu
Remember if you have Visual Studio 2005 beta installed to remove that before you remove the .net framework
Remco van Diesen
I had issues similar to the one described here, if the control panel or uninstall tool does not work, you may have to go through the registry and delete keys manually. To solve my issues I had to use regedit after the the other tools, if you do this, make sure you know what keys your deleting as well as making a reg backup before starting.

hope that helps
spymaster
What about the registry

When going from Beta 1 to Beta 2 it was a good idea to get one of them registry cleaner programs some people made. Is it still recommended
Peruri
The best way to remove betas and CTPs of the .NET Framework 2.0 and/or VS 2005 is to use the uninstall tool.

This tool does two main things. 1) It will uninstall CTP products based on their MSI product GUID even if the Add/Remove program entry does not appear, and 2) always uninstalls the .NET Framework 2.0 build last.

Here is the link http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ LinkID=47598

If you hit an uninstall (like MSDN) that appears to fail, you might need to install the .NET Framework from your beta again.

You can also keep up with other setup related issues at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/quanto

-Bret
VS/.NET Setup Team
How to uninstall .NET 2.0 beta?

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