I am getting and unable to clear up apparent related problems accessing the unified Help from the Express editions. If I click on "How Do I " in the command bar of any of the versions, Document explorer loads and then a modal dialog is thrown stating "Package 'Visual Studio common IDE package' failed to load."
After that, clicking on "Search" or "How Do I " inside the document explorer causes a message box stating that the interface is not available. Also applies to 'Help Favorites'.
Really very frustrating...
I have uninstalled and reinstalled MSDN Express, Visual Basic Express and Web Developer Express.
I used to have Visual Studio 2005 CTP beta 2 installed, but I uninstalled it first according to the documentation.
HELP!
Thanks,
Nathan Manning
Problem with Document Explorer integration with Express versions
Sol Bad Guy
Sounds like issue mentioned at
http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx PostID=214445&SiteId=1
Try running the command
reg delete HKLM\Software\Microsoft\MSDN\8.0\Packages\{6E87CFAD-6C05-4adf-9CD7-3B7943875B7C} /v CodeBase
and
reg delete HKLM\Software\Microsoft\MSDN\8.0\Packages\{6E87CFAD-6C05-4adf-9CD7-3B7943875B7C}\SatelliteDll
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Regards,
Saurabh