Completely uninstall VS2005

Recently because to use VS2008, want to the machine on the old version of the VS2005 removed, the result caused a lot of trouble. Never encountered the uninstall software so troublesome. Tinker with a pass, VS2005 still have no way to unload, incredibly still can use.
Record the uninstall process, backup

The Automatic uninstall VS2005 tool introduced by Microsoft:
/files/shineboy1219/vs_uninst_betas.zip

Microsoft's Uninstall program tool Msicuu2.exe, simple and easy to use the removal program tool.


     Manual Uninstall steps:
     Visual Studio Express Editions go to Control Panel, run Add or Remove Programs uninstall "MSDN Library for Visual Studio, Beta" Uninstall "Microsoft SQL Server Edition Express" Uninstall "Microsoft SQL Server Edition Express" Uninstall Microsoft SQL Native Client Uninstall DMA transport Update for VS. ETA 2 Uninstall "Microsoft MSDN Express Library" Beta "Uninstall all Microsoft Visual Studio Express Editions (for example, Visual C # ESS Edition Beta) Uninstall "Microsoft Visual Studio Debugger Light" (If your Visual studio is installed on a 64-bit machine, you need to perform this procedure) uninstall MICR Osoft Visual J #. NET Redistributable 2.0 Beta Language Pack (This step is not required if you have English only) uninstall Microsoft Visual J #. NET Redistributab Le Package 2.0 beta "Confirm that all visual Studio 2005 products have been uninstalled from your system uninstall the Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0 Beta Language Pack (if you have an English version, you do not need to To do this, uninstall the Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0 Beta Installation Visual Studio Express Edition or any other version you need

Visual Studio,

Go to Control Panel, run Add or Remove Programs uninstall "MSDN Library for Visual Studio," Uninstall "Microsoft SQL Server" Edition Express "Uninstall" Microso FT SQL Server "Edition" uninstall Microsoft SQL Native Client Uninstall Microsoft Visual Studio 64bit Prerequisites Beta "(If your Visual studio is installed on a 64-bit machine, you need to perform this procedure) uninstall the Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office System Runtime Language P ACK (if you do not need this step if you have English only) uninstall the Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office System Runtime Beta Uninstall DMA transport Update fo R VS 2 "uninstall" Microsoft Device Emulator 1.0 Beta "Uninstall" Microsoft. NET Compact Framework 2.0 Beta "uninstall" Microsoft. NET Compact Framework 1.0 uninstall Microsoft Visual Studio Professional or other related IDE installs (for example, Visual Studio Professional/standard/enterprise Architect/team Suite, and so on) uninstall "Microsoft Document Explorer Language Pack" (If you only have English version, You do not need this step to uninstall "Microsoft Document Explorer" (after the BETA2 version requires this step) uninstall the Microsoft SQL Mobile Development Tools Uninstall MICR Osoft 64-bit SDK "(If your VisUAL Studio is installed on a 64-bit machine, you need to perform this procedure to uninstall Microsoft Visual Studio Debugger (x64) (If your Visual studio is installed on a 64-bit machine, you will need Perform this step) uninstall the Microsoft MSXML 6 SDK 2.8 SP1 (if you are running on a Windows 2000 operating system, you need to perform this procedure) uninstall Microsoft? Visual J #. NET Redistributable 2.0 Beta Language Pack (This step is not required if you have English only) uninstall Microsoft Visual J # Redistributable Package 2.0 Beta "Confirm that all visual Studio 2005 products have been uninstalled from your system uninstall the Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0 Beta Language Pack (if you have English only, you do not need this step) uninstall" Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0 Beta "   

How to manually uninstall VS2005.

Now Add/Remove Programs inside Delete vs2005.

Next steps: Uninstalling additional components

Visual Studio may have installed additional components on your computer during the installation process. You must manually uninstall these by using Add or Remove Programs in the order listed below

Component.

Note: Uninstalling these components may affect other applications that are already installed that depend on these components.

The following components may have been installed on your computer with Visual Studio:

Microsoft MSDN 2005 Express Edition
Microsoft Visual Studio C Tools for Office Runtime language pack
Microsoft Visual Studio Runtime for Office Tools
Microsoft Device Emulator version 1.0
Microsoft. NET Compact Framework 1.0
Microsoft. NET Compact Framework 2.0
Microsoft SQL Mobile 2005 development Tools
Microsoft Visual J # 2.0 Redistributable
Microsoft Visual J # 2.0 Redistributable Language Pack
Microsoft Document Explorer 2005
Microsoft Document Explorer 2005 Language Pack
Microsoft Data Access Components 2.8 SP1 (Windows 2000 only)
The following components may have been installed with SQL Server Express and need to be removed in the following order:
Note: When you uninstall the SQL Express instance, the database created by the user is preserved and can be reattached to the new instance later.

Microsoft SQL Server Express CTP
Microsoft SQL Server Express Tools CTP
Microsoft SQL Server installation support files
Microsoft SQL Native Client
The following components must be last uninstalled:

MSXML 6.0 Analyzer and SDK (32-bit only)
MSXML 6.0 Parser and SDK x64 (64-bit only)
Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0 Language Packs
Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0
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