Error message when uninstalling v8.0

[John_L_4]

Hi,

I received the error message below when uninstalling v8.0 of IVF before installing the new v8.1 compiler. What does this mean, and is it really a problem? (BTW, I answered "No" to the question "Would you like to disable loading this package in the future?")

Package 'VsRptDesigner Package' has failed to load properly (GUID = {A9D28E15-E2CD-4185-A9BE-7DC617936ACB}). Please contact package vendor for assistance. Would you like to disable loading this package in the future? You may use 'devenv /resetskippkgs' to re-enable package loading. Application restart is recommended, due to possible environment corruption.

The uninstall seemed to work OK and my new installation of v8.1 seems to be working, but I don't like strange behavior when it comes touninstalling/installing my compilers.

John

[Steven_L_Intel1]

This is a generic bug in VS.NET that affects many "plugin" packages, including some that MS itself provides. It is harmless and you did the right thing by selecting No. Note that the package it complains about is not part of Intel Visual Fortran.

[Steven_L_Intel1]

Uninstall both.Reboot. Delete the registry trees SoftwareMicrosoftVisualStudio7.0 (or 7.1) under both HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE and HKEY_CURRENT_USER. Then reinstall.

VS.NET doesn't keep track of installed components as well as it should.

[forall]

I am planning to upgrade my installation of IVF from 8.0 to 8.1. I waited a while since uninstalling-reinstalling compilers to change the decimal point in the version is rather drastic and I'd like to minimise the number of times I have to do that. Posts like the previous one only reinforce this observation.

So to try to ease my pain and hopefully simplify my experience: are there any tricks to this "upgrade" like some "uninstall-time" questions with non-obvious answers, error messages that should be ignored, registry entries modified, etc. And I hope I wount have to un-install-re-install .NET - that thing comes on 10CDs and takes a day to install and I suspect would leave behind an ms-mess...

sorry for the negativism and i know this was previously raised, but such "upgrading procedure" seems rather disruptive...

[Steven_L_Intel1]

If any error boxes come up that refer to VS.NET integration and ask if you want to "disable loading" of things in the future, always select "No". Otherwise, there isn't really anything to it. I've done this probably a hundred times by now...