Upgrading Visual Studio 2010 RC to RTM/Retail/Final

Question

I have the RC build of VS2010 installed on my computer. Now that the RTM build is out, I want to upgrade.

Aside from the main Visual Studio package and .NET Framework 4,

Answer 1

the official RC readme from microsoft: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=6&ved=0CCUQFjAF&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdownload.microsoft.com%2Fdownload%2FA%2FF%2FF%2FAFFE9A0D-E43C-4402-99C1-DD4E0E58AB60%2FVS2010RCReadme.htm&rct=j&q=VS2010RCReadme.htm&ei=zCTUS6CcE-OfOMKl4NYN&usg=AFQjCNECDmZMNzj0y-HXNCLQkCnP26BwDg

click on the #Uninstalling details or follow this: 2. Uninstall all instances of Visual Studio 2010 products (for example, Visual 2010 Ultimate).

3. Uninstall other installed supporting products, in the specified order. (Ignore items that are not present on the computer.)

   a. The .NET Framework 4 Language Pack

   b. The .NET Framework 4 Extended (reboot, if prompted)

   c. The .NET Framework 4 Client (reboot, if prompted)