Unistalling VSTO "v3"

Unistalling VSTO "v3"

• akram badr

  Hi everyone!!!

  Bad news, well first at all nobody reply to the post, and now with the office rtm doesn't uninstall saying that I have beta products, wich is not true but wait a moment is office 2007 rtm and vsto v3 ctp related Is maybe that I need to unistall the vsto v3 ctp but I can't!!! Please some one help me!!!

  
  
  

• lyqfqy

  Sorry you're having trouble.

  It is important to keep in mind that the VSTO v3 CTP required Office 2007 B2TR. It doesn't support RTM. So by installing RTM of Office 2007, you've removed one of the prereqs for the CTP setup. Since it;'s just a CTP Setup, never tested or implemented in any sophisticated way, Setup isn't smart enough to figure out that you're uninstalling it so it shouldn't matter what you have on your machine - it just checks for all the pre-reqs before letting you specify that you want to uninstall. Since O2007 b2tr that it checks for is not on the machine, it complains.

  No clean way around that other than uninstall O2007 RTM and reinstall O2007 B2TR. Then uninstall VSTo v3 CTP, VS, etc.

  At some point you may probably decide it is really easier to just restore a backup of your computer, which is why that's the only "official" way of uninstalling the VSTO v3 CTP.

  
  

• foobarX

  Thanks to all, the last answer is right!!

  But who marks it as the right answer

  
  
  

• cpaw88

  At this point, the VSTO v3 CTP from June is obsolete. It won't work with Office 2007 b2tr or later, it was built for b2 only. So you are right in wanting to get rid of it now.

  As the documentation mentions, there is no realiable way to "uninstall" the VSTO v3 CTP cleanly. The only reliable way is to restore a backup of your computer from before you had the CTP installed.

  I've found however that it may be sufficient to:

  1) uninstall the CTP (including the InfoPath VSTO support, which is a separate item in Add/Remove programs). To workaround the .NET 3.0 issue, write the folowing regkey:

  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WinFX RunTime\3.0\Setup\Indigo]
  "InstallSuccess"=dword:00000001

  2) uninstall ALL of Visual Studio 2005 (make sure its folders are really deleted from Program Files"

  3) reinstall VS

  and now your machine should be free enough of the VSTO v3 CTP.

  Hope this helps

  
  

• Recycler

  Thanks a lot!!!

  It works!! The error goes aw but it was replaced with the next message:

  "You must have a complete installation of Microsoft Office 2007 before installing or repairing this product"

  What a #!@^ I have uninstalled the Beta2 to go to an RTM Office 2007 before unistalling the VSTO!!! I forget it at all!!!

  Well please someone can help me with anothe magic registry key

  
  
  

• herman_hhh

  Hmmm. ....

  I assume you get this error when you try to uninstall VSTO 'v3'

  An option would be to install the uninstalled components again and start uninstalling in the right order this time

  -= Maarten =-

  
  
  

• Marius F

  The Key helps a lot but another error has appear it says: "You must have a complete installation of Microsoft Office 2007 before installing or repairing this product". Well I'm triying to uninstall it but the message is not telling me that, and I have an Office 2007 Professional RTM already installed with all the components installed in the hard disk, as one of the post tell me I try uninstalling VS and then installing it again but it doesn't work, please can anyone help me
  
  

• ImagineNation

  You have reason, the error appears when I try to uninstall the VSTO, I have the complete installation of Office 2007 Pro RTM, I don't know why is this message appearing...
  
  

• ogtr

  
  To fool VSTO 'v3' to install with another version of wfx you had to add a registry item to make it work. Maybe if you remove it your uninstall is fooled to make it work too

  This was the 'add' post.

  Add
  [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\WinFX RunTime\3.0\Setup\Indigo]
  "InstallSuccess"=dword:00000001
  to your registry and VSTO 'v3' June CTP will install!

  In your case add would be remove

  Try at your own risk - disclaimer stuff in order here ...

  Let us know if that worked !

  -= Maarten =-

  
  
  
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