Package load failure AND can't import settings (on another machine)

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Package load failure AND can't import settings (on another machine)

Visual Studio 2005 RC1 installed on a machine where August CTP was previously installed.

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Microsoft Visual Studio
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Package Load Failure

Package 'Visual Studio Explorers and Designers Package' has failed to load properly ( GUID = {8D8529D3-625D-4496-8354-3DAD630ECC1B} ). Please contact package vendor for assistance. Application restart is recommended, due to possible environment corruption. Would you like to disable loading this package in the future You may use 'devenv /resetskippkgs' to re-enable package loading.
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Yes   No  
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I tried uninstalling and cleaning with Aaron's cleanup. It doesn't work.
I checked already permissions on registry. Everything is ok in HKEY_USERS\<SID>.

I can't enumerate Web Services. It says:
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Microsoft Visual Studio
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The components required to enumerate Web references are not installed on this computer. Please re-install Visual Studio.
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OK  
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The "package load failure" dialog pops up also during the debugging of my code. (when an exception is thrown)
I had the same problem with july/august CTP.
So I suppose it must be something registry-related (damaged by a CTP ) and not version related.
I fear I'll have the same problem with the release version of VS.

How do I correct this

Moreover...
On another machine I can't successfully Import/Reset my "settings". Visual Studio says it can write to the file [mydocuments]\Visual Studio\Settings\currentsettings.vssettings
The file is already there. NTFS permissions are "everyone" full access.
I can overwrite it with the .settings file on a third machine (I formatted it and did a clean VS install) but Visual Studio refuses to read/write it.
Debugging with clicks on the toolbar "step button" is really frustrating.

Any advice



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Package load failure AND can't import settings (on another machine)

  • Mhorn821

    Well...If you rate "format C:" a good solution...Yes.. I found it..And it WORKS!!!
    Wouldn't you believe that Surprise Big Smile

    Now I have only one PC with the problem (I'll format it sooner or later)..

    Jokes apart... I needed at least one working computer but I didn't find a good solution and I formatted one of them.

    Sorry.

  • Ranjith_Msdn

    Take a look in your GAC and do you see multiple copies of the same assembly but different versions
    If you see any with the version 8.0.21505 and a newer version, try removing the older version.

  • stalamoni

    I'm investigating.

    I found that the package "8D8529D3-625D-4496-8354-3DAD630ECC1B" is
    Microsoft.VSDesigner, Version=8.0.0.0, Culture=Neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a
    (this assembly is in the GAC)

    It has a SatelliteDLL\Path = "[programfiles]\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\" but that DLL is not in that path. It is in "[programfiles]\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\1033". Could be this the problem

    I copied that dll one folder up (IDE\1033 -> IDE) and the problem still persists.

    Please help.

  • Cy Harper

    Although this may not completely help, in some situations the beta version of the software (or even the RTM) may have had a problem with initializing the component when Visual Studio was starting up running the following command below (at the VS.NET command line) will reset these packages and load the required package to make the references work:

    devenv /resetskippkgs

    Good luck!



  • gatalec

    Thanks for the tip.  I used the updated tool referenced in Aaron's blog and it did the job.  No more package load failures.

    Thanks to Aaron for the tool!

    Rick

  • Mads Torgersen

    I had installed and removed all Beta versions of .Net 2005 on my laptop and desktop. When I installed the final release (Professional) to my laptop I had no problems, everything worked out perfect. But my desktop had this "package load failure" problem. Installing / uninstalling would not do the trick, because of the reason Aaron tells about on his blog. Please read it.

    The "VS 2005 troubleshooting tool" that Aaron points on the blog [http://blogs.msdn.com/astebner/archive/2005/08/27/457248.aspx]took care of the "package load failure" problem.



  • Muhammad Ismael

    Today I tried the passages in the blog...and I still have the package load failure...

    Is there a way to log what fails and why
    "Package 'Visual Studio Explorers and Designers Package' has failed to load properly ( GUID = {8D8529D3-625D-4496-8354-3DAD630ECC1B} )."

    Is TOO generic!!! What failed Is there a log file


  • Mathijs van Bockhooven

  • ger001

    Yes. All frameworks/beta products were removed.
    (I even used the AAron's cleanup tool to be sure of that. msiinv doesn't report any older products but it is still not working.)

  • Jazz1234

    can you run msiinv.exe and confirm the old framework and other older beta products were removed from your machine

    msiinv.exe is at:
    http://blogs.msdn.com/quanto/archive/2005/06/30/434388.aspx

  • renegade800X

    No solutions found till now.
    I'm giving up.
    I'll wait for the official release and then I'll call microsoft official support if the problem persists.

    Thank you all anyway.

  • SQL McOLAP

    Did you ever find a solution to this problem   I have the same problem after installing the RC.

  • P3T3R 7

    Hi QuanT.

    I didn't tried THAT steps in that page...
    BUT I tried to uninstall ALL .NET versions (so seeing what's in the "Assembly" folder) and deleting the "Assembly" folder itself.
    BTW: you'll be impressed to see what remains in that folder after one year of use (it has a lot of "hidden" subfolders) that remain even if you uninstall every .NET application and the framework itself!

    However.. cleaning that was not sufficient.
    After reinstall I don't have the unversioned files Aaron mentioned in his post.. but the problem is still here.
    It's all ok in the gac..but I still have that problem.

  • jadoger

    Already tried.
    I even uninstalled all .NET framework versions and removed the "winnt\assembly" and "winnt\Microsoft.net" folders.

    No results.
    Thanks however.
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