Uninstalling Visual Studio 2008

Uninstalling Visual Studio 2008

This article applies to official release of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008.  For uninstalling pre-release version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008, see Uninstalling Previous Versions of Visual Studio 2008.

Automated uninstall tool

Note: This tool doesn’t uninstall Beta releases of Visual Studio 2008. This uninstalls only the Visual Studio 2008 Release Candidate and official release version (English version only).

Warning: This Auto-Uninstall Tool uninstalls ALL components installed with Visual Studio 2008 products, including Visual Studio Express Editions, Visual Studio Team System, Visual Studio Professional. This tool won’t uninstall shared components between Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2005.

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Manual uninstall instructions

  1. Go to the Control Panel and launch Add/Remove Programs
  2. Remove all instances of Visual Studio 2008/Codename Orcas products
  3. Remove any remaining supporting products in the specified order.
    1. Remove "MSDN Library for Visual Studio 2008"
    2. Remove "Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5"
    3. Remove "Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 Design Tools"
    4. Remove "Microsoft SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 for Devices"
    5. Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio Performance Collection Tools"
    6. Remove "Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK R2 for Pocket PC"
    7. Remove "Windows Mobile 5.0 SDK R2 for Smartphone"
    8. Remove "Crystal Reports 2007"
    9. Remove "Visual Studio Asset System"
    10. Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio Web Authoring Component / Microsoft Web Designer Tools"
    11. Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Runtime"
    12. Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the 2007 Microsoft Office System Runtime Language Pack" (non-English editions only)
    13. Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio Tools for Office Runtime 3.0"
    14. Remove "Microsoft Document Explorer"
    15. Remove "Microsoft Document Explorer 2005 Language Pack" (non-English editions only)
    16. Remove "Microsoft Device Emulator 3.0"
    17. Remove "Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 3.5"
    18. Remove "Microsoft .NET Compact Framework 2.0 SP1"
    19. Remove ".NET Framework 2.0 SDK"
    20. Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio Codename Orcas Remote Debugger"
    21. Remove "Microsoft Visual Studio 64bit Prerequisites Beta" (64-bit platforms only)
    22. Remove "Microsoft .NET Framework 3.5"
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