Having problems uninstalling VB.NET Professional 2002

How do I manually uninstall VB.NET Professional 2002? I'm trying to reinstall but an error pops up saying uninstall not found. Please help.
It sounds like someone deleted the Visual Studio directory. Since the uninstall executable is missing, you'll probably need to reinstall or repair the installation. Once you've done that, you can start the real uninstall.

This was first published in July 2003