Beta 2 totally unusable?

Is this just my installation that has gone to pot

I keep getting really freaky things.

Opening an old project, my menus have disappeared. They are still in the code, but don't show in the design view of the form.

Tried a sample project to double check my code against the automatically generated code.

- created a new form
- added a menu with a few menu items

VS adds multiple definitions for each item. Manually deleting the additional items crashed the design view

Back in the other project, clicking on properties of the menustrip throws an Out Of Memory exception -- no way am i out of memory -- but Task manager says I'm using 440MB ! How can this be

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Beta 2 totally unusable?

IceX
baxy -

Unfortunately, no, it isn't easy to tell whether you've completely cleaned up the previous install. If you've run the cleanup tool, you've done as good a job as is currently possible cleaning things out, so hopefully you'll have more luck with the product installation now.

Thanks,
Luke Hoban
Visual C# IDE Program Manager
lchase4411

I think WillemM meant "without uninstalling beta 1". There are known issues when installing different versions of VS2005 beta:
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/uninstall/

If you haven't uninstalled in the exact correct order, you might have some bits from beta 1 left on your hard drive. I did that on my laptop and had to start into safe mode and manually delete the files (after reading this blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/04/16/408856.aspx)
Joseph Kasende
no, i had beta 1 installed. still weird errors

latest:

have a project with a number of static structures, populated with data

some parts of the program access the data okay, some parts return 0 for the same values (used to work under beta 1)
Craig Guyer - MSFT
Daniel. Thanks for the pointer. I followed the procedure for uninstall to the letter, AND ran the uninstall tool afterwards. So I think I should be in the clear on that one. But it's never crystal clear with these installs. Is there an easy way to check if I have any left over files
mmmattias
Did you have beta 1 installed before you installed current version
I had all kinds of weird errors when I installed beta 2 without installing beta 1.
Beta 2 totally unusable?

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