Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Manual Remove Visual Studio 2005

I have problem to remove the Visual Studio 2005. It complains about the
vs_setup.msi could not be found in c:\program files\microsoft visual studio
8.

I also tried to remove it from DVD, which was not successful as well.

(1) Rename the Visual Studio directories to something else (ie. add REMOVE
to the folder name)

(2) rename the following Register entry using REGEDIT (use with care!)

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0 (ie. change
\8.0 to \8.0REMOVE)

(3) Download the Windows Install Clean Up utility at:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/290301

Use this software to 'clean up' anything with Visual Studio in the
name.

(4) Reinstall the Visual Studio software


You must install Windows Installer Cleanup Utility - msizap.exe.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/290301

Friday, October 09, 2009

Team Build Tray

There are many ways to monitor the team builds status. The greatest one I found is the Team Build Tray, which is pretty similar to the CruiseControl one I have used before. So far this tool is the most satisfied one I have used.
URL: http://teambuildtray.codeplex.com/

There are other tools other there in codeplex. But I just don't see how they will be used in a common development environment.

http://buildmonitor.codeplex.com/

is supporting Twitter and USB build light.

http://tfsalert.codeplex.com/

is not useful and I haven't seen any place to set where the TFS is.

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