Ok, so it was a tad tricky, but I think I have been able to install the June CTP of Whidbey. There seemed to be lots of problems between Whidbey and the SQL Server April CTP installs. The documentation isn't really clear as to what to do about it. It has some information, but is a little hazy on exactly which versions the information refers to. I did lots of installs yesterday and (late) last night, resulting in an excuse to re-image my laptop.
The first time I tried to install the new CTP, I had 2003, SQL Server 2000, 2005 Beta 2 and the Yukon April CTP installed. I followed the indestructions and uninstalled all the items specified so I could get the Whidbey CTP installed. Basically it all failed. Whidbey didn't install properly, then because I had uninstalled so many things, the April Yukon CTP was dead too. This is when I decided to re-image my machine because it had been a while and was getting slow anyway.
After the re-image, the laptop had 2003 and SQL Server 2000 installed. I first went for the Whidbey CTP, ensuring that SQL Express wasn't included. Interestingly with this build, VSS isn't an install option, but is on the disk. Once Whidbey was installed, I then fired up the Yukon April CTP as the June CTP is supposed to not be compatible. The Yukon install failed because there were Visual Studio or .Net framework components that were not compatible. It suggest that you should run a cleanup wizard which I found on the disk. That wizard either crashes, or reports that everything is good and you should try again. Try again as you might, it still screams that it can't do it.
I uninstalled the 2.0 beta framework (I think that was all) and then Yukon would install, but now Whidbey was dead. Doing a repair on Whidbey failed on the framework install. I then uninstalled the framework again (Yukon version) and then run the repair again on Whidbey. It passed the install of the framework (Whidbey version) and got to the end where it attempted the install of msxml 6 and died again.
At a quick glance, Yukon Management Studio works, VSS is now installed and the Whidbey IDE seems to be working (running at least). In the beginning of next week, I will be able to start using it to see if the install is happy and whether I am happy. I am hoping that I will see some improvements since Beta 2, especially in the WinForms designer.
If you are trying to install Whidbey June CTP with the Yukon CTP, let me know how you go. I am interested to see how other people have pulled this off. Obviously, these steps may not work for anyone else, but might be helpful.
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