July 12th, 2010

Uninstalling Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP

Today I decided to upgrade to the Beta of the Windows Phone Developer Toolkit, however the uninstall process wasn’t working.  It kept asking me what I wanted to install every time I choose the uninstall radio button.

So after a couple failed attempts at uninstalling in different ways, I decided to go to the source, in my case that was:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Express for Windows Phone  CTP – ENU

After in the folder, I just had to right click on the vs_setup.msi file and select Uninstall, after that the process worked like a charm and I could then install the beta.  Hope this helps someone besides me.

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7 Responses to “Uninstalling Windows Phone Developer Tools CTP”

  1. Peter Says:
    July 12th, 2010 at 2:12 pm

    It does, though I’ve already re-installed in hope that I can now uninstall. Thanks for the tip.

  2. Peter Says:
    July 12th, 2010 at 2:14 pm

    And as a follow-up, it does appear that if you have everything installed that you can uninstall successfully. I had uninstalled individual components leaving that particular piece for last.

  3. Brice Wilson Says:
    July 12th, 2010 at 4:16 pm

    Thanks for the help. I had the same problem and this fixed it. The beta bits are downloading as I type this.

  4. proph Says:
    July 12th, 2010 at 6:12 pm

    thanks, i was just uninstalling all the old componants and got down to this one and ran into the same thing. thanks for saving me time so i can get the beta installed. you definitly helped!!

  5. Uninstalling the Windows Phone 7 CTP - Pete Vickers - APPA Mundi Says:
    July 13th, 2010 at 6:06 am

    [...] you are having problems uninstalling the Windows Phone 7 CTP, take a look at the excellent link from Nick Beradi Posted Jul 13 2010, 09:54 AM by Pete Vickers Filed under: Windows Phone 7, [...]

  6. centHawk Says:
    July 14th, 2010 at 6:54 am

    Thanks for the tip. This blog here has some more tips on the same subject:

    http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2010/07/12/10037442.aspx

  7. Windows Phone CTP Compatibility Mode Uninstall | Machinadei.com Says:
    July 27th, 2010 at 4:16 pm

    [...] Update: Call it an update or that I forgot something, but once you get past this go to the WP7 CTP directory (listed above) and right click on the “vs_setup.msi file and select Uninstall”. Found that tidbit on CoderJournal.com. [...]

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