Uninstalling Dolphin broke my C++

> Graham,
>
> > I uninstalled my copy of X6 Community Edition and afterwards my C++
> > .NET would not open any projects. The error message was something
> > about the application not being installed and .vcproj. I hastily
> > re-installed Dolphin and to my great relief C++ environment is OK
> > again but I would still like to uninstall Dolphin. Sorry not to have
> > an accurate copy of the error message for you but I am scared to
> > repeat the experiment in case my C++ projects get damaged. Is this a
> > known problem, and is there a cure please?
>
> This is not a known problem; we've had no prior reports of anything
> similar. Can you let use know which version of Visual Studio .NET you
> have installed?

>
> Graham Dicker wrote:
> > I uninstalled my copy of X6 Community Edition and afterwards my C++ .NET
> > would not open any projects. The error message was something about the
> > application not being installed and .vcproj.
>
> During the uninstall process, did Windows pop up a dialog stating that
> a DLL didn't appear to be used by any other programs and ask if you'd
> like to remove it, keep it, etc?
>
> Jeff M.

> Graham,
>
> > I uninstalled my copy of X6 Community Edition and afterwards my C++
> > .NET would not open any projects. The error message was something
> > about the application not being installed and .vcproj. I hastily
> > re-installed Dolphin and to my great relief C++ environment is OK
> > again but I would still like to uninstall Dolphin. Sorry not to have
> > an accurate copy of the error message for you but I am scared to
> > repeat the experiment in case my C++ projects get damaged. Is this a
> > known problem, and is there a cure please?
>
> This is not a known problem; we've had no prior reports of anything
> similar. Can you let use know which version of Visual Studio .NET you
> have installed?
>
> --
> Best regards,
>
> Andy Bower
> Dolphin Support
> www.object-arts.com

>
> "Andy Bower" <[hidden email]> wrote in message
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>> Graham,
>>
>> > I uninstalled my copy of X6 Community Edition and afterwards my C++
>> > .NET would not open any projects. The error message was something
>> > about the application not being installed and .vcproj. I hastily
>> > re-installed Dolphin and to my great relief C++ environment is OK
>> > again but I would still like to uninstall Dolphin. Sorry not to have
>> > an accurate copy of the error message for you but I am scared to
>> > repeat the experiment in case my C++ projects get damaged. Is this a
>> > known problem, and is there a cure please?
>>
>> This is not a known problem; we've had no prior reports of anything
>> similar. Can you let use know which version of Visual Studio .NET you
>> have installed?
>
> The Help About says:-
>
> Microsoft Visual C++ .NET Version 7.1.3088
> Microsoft .NET Framework 1.1 Version 1.1.4322
>
> Graham Dicker
>
>

>I uninstalled my copy of X6 Community Edition and afterwards my C++ .NET
> would not open any projects. The error message was something about the
> application not being installed and .vcproj. I hastily re-installed
> Dolphin
> and to my great relief C++ environment is OK again but I would still like
> to
> uninstall Dolphin. Sorry not to have an accurate copy of the error message
> for you but I am scared to repeat the experiment in case my C++ projects
> get
> damaged. Is this a known problem, and is there a cure please?

> > I uninstalled my copy of X6 Community Edition and afterwards my C++
> > .NET would not open any projects. The error message was something
> > about the application not being installed and .vcproj. I hastily
> > re-installed  Dolphin and to my great relief C++ environment is OK
> > again but I would still like  to uninstall Dolphin. Sorry not to
> > have an accurate copy of the error message for you but I am scared
> > to repeat the experiment in case my C++ projects  get damaged. Is
> > this a known problem, and is there a cure please?
>
> I solved it. The uninstall script was deleting msvcp71.dll without
> asking and that was causing the problem. I removed the delete command
> from the uninstall script and now all is well.

> Graham,
>
>> > I uninstalled my copy of X6 Community Edition and afterwards my C++
>> > .NET would not open any projects. The error message was something
>> > about the application not being installed and .vcproj. I hastily
>> > re-installed  Dolphin and to my great relief C++ environment is OK
>> > again but I would still like  to uninstall Dolphin. Sorry not to
>> > have an accurate copy of the error message for you but I am scared
>> > to repeat the experiment in case my C++ projects  get damaged. Is
>> > this a known problem, and is there a cure please?
>>
>> I solved it. The uninstall script was deleting msvcp71.dll without
>> asking and that was causing the problem. I removed the delete command
>> from the uninstall script and now all is well.
>
> Thanks for tracking this down. However, I don't understand why this is
> happening.  Currently, we install MSVCP71 and MSVCR71 into the Dolphin
> Program Files directory and also into the Object Arts Common Files
> directory.  I'm looking at the set up builder script now and we don't
> copy these DLLs into system32 (or any other shared location) so I can't
> understand why they would be removed from there. Is it the copy from
> system32 that is being removed by the uninstall?
>
> When you run the Dolphin setup program, what does the installer
> announce its version number as?