I have been using Visual C++.net standard version 2003 on a Windows XP Home.
It has worked quite well, so I decided to upgrade to Visual Studio 2005 Standard to get additional features.
I uninstalled C++.net and installed VS 2005 upgrade.
Now I get the "Visual Studio Common IDE Package failed to load" error (5 times) on startup. I have looked through the posts in this forum, and have tried just about everything I could find to solve this problem. Nothing seems to work. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have not tried uninstalling/reinstalling yet.
Max
VS Common IDE Package failed to load
JohnInTampa
Do I understand correctly that VS starts after all Only that you get that error message box at startup
You could try to look into C:\Windows\assembly and see if Microsoft.VisualStudio.CommonIDE is there and it has version 8.0.0.0.
Probably you will need to reinstall it after all.
Colin Doran
Yes, VS starts, and then I get that error message box.
C:\Windows\assembly does have Microsoft.VisualStudio.CommonIDE and it is version 8.0.0.0.
I will try the uninstall/reinstall now.
Alex_M
Did a complete uninstall of anything that I could find having to do with VS. Also uninstalled Borland C++ Builder Professional. Then (still with a little trouble) reinstalled VS. VS installed and seems to be working now, but I could not install the MSDN disks. The first one loads, and then when I put disk 2 in, my system just sits there doing nothing. I waited for quite a while. On the first load, when VS was giving me the error dialogs, MSDN loaded completely.
Max
fastcarrera
Tried the uninstall/reinstall, and nothing has changed.
Max
BerndMei
I have now run "repair" and nothing changed.
Under "Visual Studio Developer News" on the startup page of VS I get the following message: "There is no content available yet. Content will be downloaded once a connection to the internet is established. However, I am connected to the internet, and if I click on "Community" and pick something that requires me to go out on the internet, I connect to the sellected page with no problems.
Max
John Winstanley
Is that the complete message Usually that message also tells you the PackageID. Can you post the Package ID in that case
Saurabh Dhall
JaLeo
Here is the complete message:
Package Load Failure
Package 'Visual Studio Common IDE Package' has failed to load properly ( GUID = {6E87CFAD-6C05-4ADF-9CD7-3B7943875B7C} ). 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.
Max