One or more Visual Studio 11 Beta or earlier

Question

I get the following message when trying to install VS 2012.

One or more Visual Studio 11 Beta or earlier products are installed. Please uninstall these prior to installing Visual Studio 11

I have uninstalled all visual studio elements in the list given.

What else can be installed that I need to de-install?

David Millsom

Answer 1

Hi David,

To quicker help you to resolve your issue, I need the complete installation logs on your side from which I can get the information about your OS, which products block installation, which version VS you try installing and etc.

To prepare the log files, follow the steps below:
1). Clean the %temp% folder.
2). Re-install the VS2012 RTM with the administrator privilege.
3). Use the collect.exe tool to collect the logs in the %temp% folder.
4). Upload the vslogs.cab file in the temp folder to the SkyDrive, then post back the URL.

Thanks.

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Vicky Song [MSFT]
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Answer 2

Hi David,

What about your issue now? Have you resolved it? If not, please kindly offer me the log files with the method I described above.

Thanks.

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Vicky Song [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 3

Getting the following error on a Windows 7 machine trying to install VS2012Pro from ISO:

One or more Visual Studio 11 Beta or earlier products are installed. Please uninstall these prior to installing Visual Studio 11.

From the Log:

[2B38:21CC][2012-08-29T07:47:18]: Condition '( VS11BETA_MSENV_DLL_EXISTS ) AND ( VS11BETA_MSENV_DLL_VERSION < v11.0.50324.0 ) AND (CurrentOperation = "Install")' evaluates to true.

Stop Block: VS11BetaBlock : One or more Visual Studio 11 Beta or earlier products are installed. Please uninstall these prior to installing Visual Studio 11.

Cleaned the %temp% folder, tried to reinstall, ran collect.exe, uploaded vslogs.cab to:
https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=814B6C2F20B1FB4E!339

Thank you for your assistance.

Answer 4

Hi JonAtkins57,

Do you still have VS11 Beta or VS2012RC installed on that machine? If so, please first uninstall them and then try again. We are not supported to install VS2012RTM and VS11 Beta or VS2012RC on the same machine.

Thanks.

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Vicky Song [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 5

Even i am facing same problem with my en_visual_studio_premium_2012_x86_dvd_920758, i have unistalled my VS2012RC however i have not uninstalled VS2010professional from my system, do i need to uninstall all of this version before installing VS2012??

By the way RC candidate worked fine with Vs2010 

 

Answer 6

Hi VishalKore,

You are supported to install VS2012 and VS2010 on the same machine, so you do not need to uninstall VS2010 in order to have VS2012 installed. And could you please share me the installation logs? See my first reply about how to collect it.

Thanks.

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Vicky Song [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 7

Also, please follow the following KB articles for further information about how to uninstall VS11 Beta and VS11 Developer Preview products:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2710678
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2693272

Thanks.

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Vicky Song [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 8

In this case i would suggest you to change the message given by your 2012 set up from "One or more Visual Studio 11 Beta or earlier products are installed. Please uninstall these prior to installing Visual Studio 11." to something more precise e.g. "One or more Visual Studio 11 Beta are installed. Please uninstall these prior to installing Visual Studio 11."

Remember Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio 2010 are also previous versions of Visual studio and your current message is confusing for dumb users like me.

About the logs, let me check how can i get it for you

Answer 9

I am also getting the same error:  

One or more Visual Studio 11 Beta or earlier products are installed. Please uninstall these prior to installing Visual Studio 11.

I went through the KB article to manually remove and still no luck.  I did an uninstall a while back of VS11 Beta.

Here is the link to the vslogs.cab file.  http://sdrv.ms/TFdET7

Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

Mark

Answer 10

Hi All,

To be honest your issue seems very strange to me. Let us also try running the MsiInv tool to see the state of all Windows Installer products, features and components on your computer.  For further information about how to use this tool, see this blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2005/07/01/434814.aspx

Please update me the result once you finished it.

Thanks.

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Vicky Song [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 11

So it looks like MsiInv is showing stuff as still installed that isn't showing up in my Add / Remove Programs.  I'm going through right now and running msiexec /x to get this stuff un-installed.  I'll let you know how it goes after that.

Answer 12

Okay....I think I've cleaned everything up and un-installed everything.  I'm still getting the error message......One or more Visual Studio 11 Beta or earlier products are installed. Please uninstall these prior to installing Visual Studio 11.

Here is a link to my MsiInv_Output.txt file.

http://sdrv.ms/R3stlP

Answer 13

In the end, I gave up trying to run uninstallers, and instead just deleted the files which were supposed to have been deleted when I ran the uninstaller. This fixed the problem and I was able to install Visual Studio 2012 without any problems. It's not an ideal solution, but it worked for me.

Answer 14

Hi MrMarkWilliams,

Could you please try Andrew's workaround to see if it helps you?

Thanks.

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Vicky Song [MSFT]
MSDN Community Support | Feedback to us

Answer 15

Andrew's worked for me. To be more specific and safe, I just moved 'Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0' from 'Program Files' and 'Program Files (x86)' to different backup folders (since they have the same name). Figuring this out was a MAJOR pain, I have definitely learned not to install beta products on production machines :) It would be more helpful if messages like this specified exactly WHY they think something is installed e.g. "'Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0' folder found in 'Program Files'". I understand not wanting to put that in the "Friendly" message, but a "Details" message should be made available.

Answer 16

Andrew's worked for me. To be more specific and safe, I just moved 'Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0' from 'Program Files' and 'Program Files (x86)' to different backup folders (since they have the same name). Figuring this out was a MAJOR pain, I have definitely learned not to install beta products on production machines :) It would be more helpful if messages like this specified exactly WHY they think something is installed e.g. "'Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0' folder found in 'Program Files'". I understand not wanting to put that in the "Friendly" message, but a "Details" message should be made available.

This's work :D Thanks a lot!

Answer 17

Same here.

Renamed "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0"