Visual Studio Package Load failure - Visual Studio Explorers and Designers Package

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Visual Studio Package Load failure - Visual Studio Explorers and Designers Package

When I launch VS Express (not Beta2) editions, on startup all the express products dispaly a dialog box which says


Package Load Failure

'Visual Studio Explorers and Designers Package' has failed to load properly - GUID = xxxx etc

This is a fresh installation of VS Express.

How to resolve this issue

Thanks

Venkat

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Visual Studio Package Load failure - Visual Studio Explorers and Designers Package

  • lancerx

    I was getting the same errors too. But then I did what Kristian did and all seems well so far. When I started up VS I got about 8 different load errors. I deleted 2 assemblies and got none the next time I started it up. The 2 I deleted both had the same namespace, and the same version numbers. Just check their properties and delete the older one. You might have more or less than 2 so check the entire assembly and just delete the older one if they both have the same version numbers. Because the ones with different version numbers are from .NET 1.1

  • Shalabh337

    Hi Tom,

    You need to use the uninstall tool before installing the RTM (50727.42) version of VS2005 or the Express SKUs.

    Uninstall tool:  http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/ LinkID=47598

    If you still have problems, you can try Aaron Stebner's tool at:  http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/11/09/491118.aspx

    Thanks,
    Rusty Miller
    Visual C#

  • saparicio

    I used the tool at
    http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/11/09/491118.aspx     and then all were ok.  It seems that the install/uninstall has to be done in a specific order.

    Thanks all

    Venkat

  • photonx

    Maybe this can help!

    I found in some blogg that it could be something with the files in C:\WINDOWS\assembly. I looked there and found duplicates of some of the Microsoft.VisualStudio files. I the checked the properties of some of those files and found that some of them were old. I uninstalled these and now the program runs perfectly.

    Regards,
    Kristian

  • Wilmar Bastos

    I am having the same issue, I also get the same error with the Visual Studio Common IDE package when creating or opening a project. Also, the toolbox does not seem to be fully populatesd (only html controls and no web controls).
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