Microsoft KB Archive/906762

= You may experience problems in Visual Studio 2005 when you uninstall Visual Studio .NET 2003 from a computer that has Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio .NET 2003 installed side-by-side =

Article ID: 906762

Article Last Modified on 2/16/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Standard Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Professional Edition
 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Architect
 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Enterprise Developer
 * Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 Academic Edition

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SYMPTOMS
When you uninstall Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003 from a computer that has Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and Visual Studio .NET 2003 installed side-by-side, you may experience the following problems:
 * The Visual Studio icons that are associated with Visual Studio solutions do not appear on the Start Page in Visual Studio 2005.
 * Visual Studio 2005 does not start when you click a file that has the .sln file name extension.

Note A side-by-side installation of Visual Studio is a case where you install more than one version of Visual Studio on the same computer. If you install another version of Visual Studio, the existing version is not upgraded.



CAUSE
This problem occurs because the Vslangproj.tlb and Vslangproj2.tlb files have been updated in Visual Studio 2005. However, these files are removed when you uninstall Visual Studio .NET 2003.



WORKAROUND
To work around this problem, run the Visual Studio 2005 Setup program to repair Visual Studio 2005.

Keywords: kbtshoot kbprb KB906762

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