Manually Unregistering a Guidance package

For manually unregister a guidance package we need to know two things:

1. PackageName
2. PackageGUID

This information is located at the guidance package manifest file:

Once we know this information, these are the steps that we need to perform:

• Remove the guidance package entry from the recipe framework manifest
  • Go to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Recipe Framework\RecipeFramework.xml
  • Delete the guidance package entry from the manifest using the PackageName

• Remove registry entries
  • Open windows registry editor
  • Delete the following keys:
    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\AutoLoadPackages\<PackageGUID>
    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Menus\<PackageName>
    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\NewProjectTemplates\PseudoFolders\<PackageGUID>
    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\NewProjectTemplates\TemplateDirs\<PackageGUID>
    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Languages\CodeExpansions\<LANGUAGE>\Paths\<PackageName>
    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Packages\<PackageGUID>
    • HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\Projects\<PackageGUID>

Pablo

posted on Friday, October 13, 2006 11:05 AM by pga