I installed the March 2006 Visual Studio 2005 SDK and every time I try to create a DSL Designer Project I get the following errror:
<Error Message>
Could not load file or assembly 'file:///C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\DSLTools\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling.Sdk.DesignerWizard.dll' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.</Error Message>
Any ideas
Regards
Santos
Error Creating DSL Designer Project
Phil Huang
I forgot to mention that there is no directory
"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\DSLTools\"
and that the assembly
"Microsoft.VisualStudio.Modeling.Sdk.DesignerWizard.dll "
is in the GAC so probably I am carrying some bagage from previous releases.
Matt Peirse
Hi Alan,
Thanks for your response.
I uninstalled the DSL Tools (VS SDK) but the problem continued. Then I decided to uninstall & re-install VS 2005 & the SDK and now I am OK.
Regards,
Santos
Donnie H
Hi Santos,
Yes, sounds like you have a mixup between different versions.
It's correct that Visual Studio 8\common7\IDE\DslTools should not be there. The DesignerWizard.dll required is in c:\program files\Microsoft DSL Tools. If you look in the registry under HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\8.0\CLSID and search for values containing "DesignerWizard", you should find an entry. It should *not* have CodeBase set (because the DLL is in the GAC); but my guess is that you have - as you say, a hangover from a previous installation. (The uninstaller should have removed it.) Same goes for other DLLs called *.Modeling.Sdk.*
I'd try uninstalling DSL Tools; check the registry again for things called *Modeling.Sdk.*; I wouldn't recommend removing those entries by hand if you can help it, but it's a useful check to see whether the uninstall succeeded in cleaning up properly.
Then re-install.
Alan