Hi,

Do you have instructions for a manual uninstall?

My trial period was up today so I attempted to uninstall the trial.  It got part way through and locked up.  I left it for about 2 hours to see if it would continue but it wouldn't.  I had to kill the process and reboot.  It partly finished because I get an error about configuring StrataFrame while starting Visual Studio.  Part of it is still there because I still have the menu and the templates also.  I would like to do a good job of cleaning up so when I purchase the full product I don't have install issues.  Any ideas?

Thanks,
Bill

Hi Bill,

Try the following:

1. Reinstalling the trial.
2. Uninstall SF.

Keep in mind that the StrataFrame database will not be removed to preserve any Business Object Mapper configuration you may have and some SF assemblies may still be in the GAC folder, if that is the case and you want to delete those, so ahead and manually detach and delete the StrataFrame database as well as the assemblies in the GAC folder.

Edhy Rijo

Thanks for the reply Edhy.  I forgot about the database and that may be the reason for the failure.  I have been reviewing the LightSwitch beta over the last few weeks and it trashed my system so bad I had to uninstall and reinstall SQL Server on my computer yesterday morning.

I'll see if I can reinstall this morning.

Thanks,
Bill

Edhy,

Thanks.  That did the trick.  I am assuming that the lack of data access for the SF data was what caused the problem.  One note.  After everything was removed, I still showed the SF templates as available when I did File-->New Project.  After checking that they were physically removed, I had to run  devenv.exe /installvstemplates  from the VS command prompt to remove them from the menus.

Thanks,
Bill

Hi Bill,

Glad it work!  of course I have not uninstall SF for a while, nor have any plans to do so but since I also used InstallAware for my setup, it made sense to do what I suggested.

About the Templates, probably SF is leaving them on purpose, but it is good to know how you remove it, thanks for the tip.

Edhy Rijo