To completely uninstall VS2005 or VS2008

Manual Uninstallation Steps:

Visual Studio Express Editions

go to Control Panel, run Add or Remove Programs
Uninstall "MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005Beta"
Uninstall "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 expressedition"
Uninstall "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Tools expressedition"
uninstalling the Microsoft SQL Native Client
Uninstall "DMA Transport Update for VS 2005 BETA2"
Uninstall "Microsoft MSDN Express Library 2005Beta"
Uninstall All Microsoft visual Studio Express Editions (such as Visual C # 2005Express Edition Beta)
Uninstall "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Remote Debugger Light" (This step is required if your VisualStudio is installed on a 64-bit machine)
Uninstall the Microsoft Visual J #. NET Redistributable 2.0 Beta LanguagePack (This step is not required if you have only the English version)
Uninstall the Microsoft Visual J #. NET Redistributable Package 2.0Beta
confirm that all visual Studio 2005 products have been uninstalled from your system
Uninstall the Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0 Beta Language Pack (This step is not required if you have only the English version)
uninstalling the Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0 Beta
Install Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition or other version you need

Visual Studio 2005

go to Control Panel, run Add or Remove Programs
Uninstall "MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2005Beta"
Uninstall "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 expressedition"
Uninstall "Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Tools expressedition"
uninstalling the Microsoft SQL Native Client
Uninstall Microsoft Visual Studio 64bit Prerequisites Beta (This step is required if your VisualStudio is installed on a 64-bit machine)
Uninstall the Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office System 2005 Runtimelanguage Pack (This step is not required if you have only the English version)
Uninstall "Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office System 2005 Runtimebeta"
Uninstall "DMA Transport Update for VS 2005 BETA2"
Uninstall "Microsoft Device Emulator 1.0 Beta"
uninstalling the Microsoft. NET Compact Framework 2.0Beta
Uninstall the Microsoft. NET Compact Framework1.0
Uninstall "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Professional" or other related ideinstalls (such as Visual studio professional/standard/en Terprisearchitect/team Suite, etc.)
Uninstall Microsoft Document Explorer 2005 Language Pack (This step is not required if you have only the English version)
Uninstall Microsoft Document Explorer 2005 (This step is required for versions after BETA2)
Uninstall "Microsoft SQL Mobile 2005 Developmenttools"
Uninstall the Microsoft 64-bit SDK (This step is required if your VisualStudio is installed on a 64-bit machine)
Uninstall Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Remote Debugger (x64) (This step is required if your VisualStudio is installed on a 64-bit machine)
Uninstall Microsoft MDAC 2.8 SP1 (This step is required if you are running on a Windows2000 operating system)
uninstalling the Microsoft MSXML 6 SDK and Parser
Uninstall the Microsoft Visual J #. NET Redistributable 2.0 Beta LanguagePack (This step is not required if you have only the English version)
uninstalling the Microsoft Visual J # Redistributable Package 2.0Beta
confirm that all visual Studio 2005 products have been uninstalled from your system
Uninstall the Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0 Beta Language Pack (This step is not required if you have only the English version)
uninstalling the Microsoft. NET Framework 2.0 Beta

"Uninstall vs2008 completely"

There are roughly two versions, two versions are now reproduced, it is recommended to uninstall with two versions to uninstall, be prepared for it ~

Version One:

Remove "MSDN Library for VisualStudio Beta"
Remove "Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition3.5"
Remove "Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 designtools"
Remove "Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 fordevices"
Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio performance Collectiontools"
Remove "Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK R2 for PocketPC"
Remove "Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK R2 Forsmartphone"
Remove "Crystal Reports"
Remove "Visual Studio Asset System"
Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring component/microsoftweb Designer Tools"
Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the MicrosoftOffice System Runtime"
Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the MicrosoftOffice System Runtime Language Pack" (Non-english EDI Tionsonly)
Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime3.0"
Remove the Microsoft Document Explorer
Remove "Microsoft Document Explorer 2005 Language Pack" (Non-english editions only)
Remove "Microsoft Device Emulator 3.0"
Remove "Microsoft. NET Compact Framework3.5"
Remove "Microsoft. NET Compact Framework 2.0sp1"
Remove the. NET Framework 2.0 SDK
Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio codename Orcas Remotedebugger"
Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio 64bit Prerequisites Beta" (64-bitplatforms only)
Remove "Microsoft. NET Framework 3.5"
Version Two:

add control Panel to remove all uninstall with the following typeface in the program.

microsoft Visual Studio2008
microsoft Document Explorer 2008 *
microsoft Device Emulator Version 3.0
visual Studio Tools for The Office system 3.0 Runtime *
microsoft SQL Server * * *
microsoft Windows SDK for Visual Studio * * * *
windows Mobile 5.0 * *
microsoft. NET Framework 3.5 *

If you have MSDN, you should also get deleted.

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To completely uninstall VS2005 or VS2008