Visual Studio DB Pro Duplicate Menu Items

2 10 2009

If you are having problems with Visual Studio Database Edition showing you duplicate command lines, you have a situation where you have the base product and the GDR installed at the same time.  This is what the symptom looks like:

This blog post explains the correct version numbers:

https://blogs.msdn.com/gertd/archive/2009/07/29/vsdb-2008-version-numbers.aspx

Here’s how you take care of it.  Close all instances of VS 2008.  Open an elevated command prompt.  On a 32 bit platform, enter the following command:

"%ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\DBPro\DBProRepair.exe" RemoveDBPro2008”

On a 64 bit platform, enter the following command:

"c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\DBPro\DBProRepair.exe" RemoveDBPro2008”

Now restart VS 2008 and all should be well.

 


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16 10 2009
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