Is there a way to get around this inconvenience?

[piscis]

Gentleman:


I just bought the upgrade version of Visual Studio.Net Professional 2003. I upgraded from Visual Basic 6.0 Professional.

QUESTION:
Is there a way to get around this inconvenience?

I Format my entire computer approximately every 3 months, (the reason? lot of downloads, install demos, viruses, etc, etc.)
Do I need to reinstall, once again, the OLD Visual Basic 6.0 Professional BEFORE I can install the new upgrade version of Visual Studio.Net Professional 2003? Do I absolutely need to do this over and oven again? Is there a way to get around this inconvenience?

Thanks for your help

Andy

[Cander]

Yes. It is going to detect if you have a previous version of VB installed. That it why its called Upgrade.

[Hinder]

Originally posted by piscis
Gentleman:


I just bought the upgrade version of Visual Studio.Net Professional 2003. I upgraded from Visual Basic 6.0 Professional.

QUESTION:
Is there a way to get around this inconvenience?

I Format my entire computer approximately every 3 months, (the reason? lot of downloads, install demos, viruses, etc, etc.)
Do I need to reinstall, once again, the OLD Visual Basic 6.0 Professional BEFORE I can install the new upgrade version of Visual Studio.Net Professional 2003? Do I absolutely need to do this over and oven again? Is there a way to get around this inconvenience?

Thanks for your help

Andy

Well I know that some products that MS has only ask you to install the original disk into the cd drive to verify you have it, then it will do a full install from the upgrade disk, I remember a win98 cd doing that to me everytime I formated. I don't know about vs.net, you can try...

[trisuglow]

Have you thought about using Norton Ghost from Symantec?

[piscis]

trisuglow / Hinder:

Thanks for your replies guys, i will try the CD flopping fist then I will take a look at Ghost.



Andy

[Pirate]

The fastest , safest , and best way to do is : ghost your system partition . I did this and I no longer use VS.NET 2003 cds . When anything goes wrong , just restore that image (with all programs previously installed) . It works well . I've been using this ghost thingy since Win98 days .

[piscis]

Pirate:


Do you know the price of Ghost?

Where can get it?

Thanks

Andy

[Pirate]

Check it out : http://www.atomicpark.com/productLis...2&sub=y&ref=51

[piscis]

Thanks Pirate:

great price!!!



Andy