| Bug #34007 | Entries for "Installed Products" won't be removed on Connector/NET deinstall | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Submitted: | 23 Jan 2008 13:13 | Modified: | 24 Jan 2008 10:47 |
| Reporter: | Rene MT | Email Updates: | |
| Status: | Closed | Impact on me: | |
| Category: | Connector / NET | Severity: | S3 (Non-critical) |
| Version: | any | OS: | Windows |
| Assigned to: | CPU Architecture: | Any | |
| Tags: | setup, Visual Studio | ||
[23 Jan 2008 13:34]
Tonci Grgin
Hi Rene and thanks for your report. I believe this is a duplicate (or at least shares a fix with) Bug#31731. This problem should have been fixed in 5.1.4 so can you test and inform me of outcome please. Version 5.1.4 - 11/12/2007 - Fixed problem with installer where attempting to install over a failed uninstall could leave multiple clients registered in machine.config. (Bug #31731) Also, it would be a good thing to download MS uninstall tools (Windows Installer Clean Up) from their site and clean up any failed uninstalls.
[24 Jan 2008 8:03]
Rene MT
I run the MSI unstall utility - and actually it found a failed deinstallation of a 5.0.x version. I removed it, but the duplicate (or triplicate ;) ) entries described were not gone til now. I also took a look at the machine.config: there is only the most recent client registered. Maybe you could tell me, from where the Visual Studio gets its wisdom about the installed add-ons? I mean - it's not a critical bug at all, more a blemish.
[24 Jan 2008 9:40]
Tonci Grgin
Rene good, so you are able to work now. As for from where VS gets it's list, I don't know but I'll look as it might be an interesting piece info.
[24 Jan 2008 10:19]
Tonci Grgin
Got it, check registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Packages Can we close the report now?
[24 Jan 2008 10:20]
Tonci Grgin
And in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\ToolWindows too.
[24 Jan 2008 10:41]
Rene MT
I took a look at the recommended keys, but did not find any entry beside the most recent. However, I won't spend any more time looking at this. How I said: It's just a blemish :) If the issue actually has been resolved I will figure out at the latest if I upgrade to antother version of Connector/NET. So if you want to, you may close this report for now.
[24 Jan 2008 10:47]
Tonci Grgin
Rene, I will close it for now. If problem reappears, open it. Just to be on the safe side, I notified c/NET team of this report.
Description: If you did install/deinstall several versions of Connector/NET you will find for each version another entry in the Visual Studio 2005 splash screen as well as in the "About" dialog ("Installed Products"). On my current development box I had installed three different Connector versions now and there are three entries. An abridgment of the info for my VS looks like this: --------------------------------- Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Version 8.0.50727.762 (SP.050727-7600) Microsoft .NET Framework Version 2.0.50727 SP1 Installed Edition: Professional [..] Castle Visual Studio Integration 0.1 Castle NVelocity Language Service for Castle MonoRail MySQL Connector/Net 5.1 Data design and management tools for MySQL. Copyright © 2007 MySQL AB MySQL Connector/Net 5.1 Data design and management tools for MySQL. Copyright © 2007 MySQL AB MySQL Connector/Net 5.1 Data design and management tools for MySQL. Copyright © 2007 MySQL AB Orcas Technology Preview - .NET Framework 3.0 Development Tools 1.0 Microsoft Visual Studio Code Name Orcas Community Technology Preview - Development Tools for WinFX [...] --------------------------------- So it seems these entries won't be removed on deinstallation of Connector/NET. How to repeat: Install a version of Connector/NET (e.g. 5.1.2.2), remove it and install another (5.1.4.0).