Problem uninstalling orcas march ctp

When trying to uninstall the orcas installation from march ctp I get the errormessage "The application data folder for visual studio could not be created".

What am I to do

Thanks for your reply, Chrichton



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Problem uninstalling orcas march ctp

  • Johannes Hamman

    I got the same error with Visual Studio 2005 Std Ed:

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    Microsoft Visual Studio
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    The Application Data folder for Visual Studio could not be created.
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    OK
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    Using Regmon (and FileMon from www.sysinternals.com), I saw the problem stemmed from the following registry key:

    HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\AppData

    Funnily enough, in another troublehshooting exercise I was testing the following vbs script:

    Dim WshShell

    Set WshShell = WScript.CreateObject("WScript.Shell")

    WSHShell.Popup("Delete value HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\AppData") WSHShell.RegDelete("HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\AppData")

    WSHShell.RegWrite "HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders\AppData", "%USERPROFILE%\Application Data", "REG_SZ"

    What happened is that I deleted the AppData "REG_EXPAND_SZ" registry key and recreated it as a "REG_SZ" key...

    Once I corrected the RegKey to be expandable, Visual Studio opened OK.



  • Pavan Apuroop

    Hello Chrichton. I would like to try and setup a repro of the problem if possible. Can you please provide information including, what OS & version number you are using, what sku of VS (express, pro, etc), what build of the SDK & WinFX are you using

    Thanks

    Anthony



  • Ajay Sudan MSFT

    Hi Anthony,

    I am using winxp professional service pack2 with all updates installed.

    I am using VS prof. english.

    WinFX march ctp of sdk and winfx

    Best wishes from Chrichton


  • Brett Hickenbottom

    Did the same as u mentioned but nothing / no good as the reg key still was fine  Tried another guys theory of doin this

     

    "%programfiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /setup in cmd prompt it ran the VS8 but than when closing it wouldnt open jus through start and program files etc.. any else got any ideas..

     Bassically all i am doing is copying a user profile to domain and i dont want to install the whole app over again i just want to be able to migrate profiles and click clikc done. if anyones information can come in handy that would be great (as i have alot of users to migrate and only 1 cd and that would take me about 10 weeks to install everything :P

    Thanks

     

    Tasker



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