removing net 2.0 after 3.0 is installed

After I installed ver. 3 I went to "Add/Remove" in control panel and tried to
uninstall ver 2 and get the error mssg that leads to this KB article
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906894/en-us
Unfortunatly Im not really clear what they want me to remove. Do they mean I
need to uninstall ver 3 then ver 2 and then only add back ver 3 or am I
totally off base on this?

Any advice/enlightenment appreciated
Jess

There seems to be a misunderstanding with .NET that a lot of people get
confused or are no knowledgable about .NET. Going from .NET 1 or 1.1 or 2.0
or 3.0 do not upgrade your current version. These are totally different
software packages. So if you have a program that uses .NET 2.0 and you
download .NET 3.0 and remove .NET 2.0 then that program will not work
anymore.

"JLMJR" <> wrote in message
news:6927FC7B-DBF4-42E8-A863-...
> After I installed ver. 3 I went to "Add/Remove" in control panel and tried
> to
> uninstall ver 2 and get the error mssg that leads to this KB article
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906894/en-us
> Unfortunatly Im not really clear what they want me to remove. Do they mean
> I
> need to uninstall ver 3 then ver 2 and then only add back ver 3 or am I
> totally off base on this?
>
> Any advice/enlightenment appreciated
> Jess

I am aware of that. However I also beta test some apps/drivers for ATI and
need/want to test app compatability with Version 3. To the best of my
knowledge I have no other apps that even use Net right now but to get the app
to use ver 3.0 the other versions need to be gone so it defaults to using 3.0.

"AllenM" wrote:

> There seems to be a misunderstanding with .NET that a lot of people get
> confused or are no knowledgable about .NET. Going from .NET 1 or 1.1 or 2.0
> or 3.0 do not upgrade your current version. These are totally different
> software packages. So if you have a program that uses .NET 2.0 and you
> download .NET 3.0 and remove .NET 2.0 then that program will not work
> anymore.
>
> "JLMJR" <> wrote in message
> news:6927FC7B-DBF4-42E8-A863-...
> > After I installed ver. 3 I went to "Add/Remove" in control panel and tried
> > to
> > uninstall ver 2 and get the error mssg that leads to this KB article
> > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906894/en-us
> > Unfortunatly Im not really clear what they want me to remove. Do they mean
> > I
> > need to uninstall ver 3 then ver 2 and then only add back ver 3 or am I
> > totally off base on this?
> >
> > Any advice/enlightenment appreciated
> > Jess
>
>
>

See the below here: http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/articles/454956.aspx

How to remove broken .NET Framework builds

* Automated removal tool for the .NET Framework 1.0, 1.1 and 2.0
* Manual removal steps for the .NET Framework 2.0
* Automated removal tool for the .NET Framework 2.0

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JLMJR wrote:

> I am aware of that. However I also beta test some apps/drivers for ATI and
> need/want to test app compatability with Version 3. To the best of my
> knowledge I have no other apps that even use Net right now but to get the app
> to use ver 3.0 the other versions need to be gone so it defaults to using 3.0.
>
> "AllenM" wrote:
>
>
>>There seems to be a misunderstanding with .NET that a lot of people get
>>confused or are no knowledgable about .NET. Going from .NET 1 or 1.1 or 2.0
>>or 3.0 do not upgrade your current version. These are totally different
>>software packages. So if you have a program that uses .NET 2.0 and you
>>download .NET 3.0 and remove .NET 2.0 then that program will not work
>>anymore.
>>
>>"JLMJR" <> wrote in message
>>news:6927FC7B-DBF4-42E8-A863-...
>>
>>>After I installed ver. 3 I went to "Add/Remove" in control panel and tried
>>>to
>>>uninstall ver 2 and get the error mssg that leads to this KB article
>>>http://support.microsoft.com/kb/906894/en-us
>>>Unfortunatly Im not really clear what they want me to remove. Do they mean
>>>I
>>>need to uninstall ver 3 then ver 2 and then only add back ver 3 or am I
>>>totally off base on this?
>>>
>>>Any advice/enlightenment appreciated
>>>Jess
>>
>>
>>