Package Load Failure - VS 2005 Final Release

Also, does the IDE work and just have an error or are you blocked?

Finally, you certainly can repair VS to see if that helps. We have done a lot in VS 2005 to make repair work a lot better than previous releases. One draw back is that we repair everything we can, which may lead to reboots during repair. For this release we decided that a full complete repair with reboots is better than a weaker repair function.

Thanks.
Bret
VS/.NET setup team

BretGrinslade at 2007-9-9 >

I then did a repair install which didnt help at all either.

In the end I had to go through the GAC manually and found 3 dlls that had the 8.0.40xxx version number. Once I deleted those it worked fine with no errors.

I still have no idea how i got those versions on my machine... i was careful never to install the beta so i wouldnt have these issues.

Now I am dealing with why VS freezes every time i try and open a .config file...

*sigh*

thejez at 2007-9-9 >

I'm having a similar problem.
When I start VS2005 I get 5 Package Load Failures.
Visual Studio Common IDE Package - GUID {6E87CFAD-6C05-4ADF-9CD7-3B7943875B7C}
If I open a WinForms app and double click on the form I get
Could not load type 'Microsoft.VisualStudi.Shell.Interop.IVsRunningDocumentTable2' from assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStuiod.Shell.Interop.8.0, Version 8.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f11d50a3a. This is in the GAC.
I have tired a repair and it made no difference.
The only thing I might have done out of the ‘ordinary’ was install SQL 2005 first.

Dion at 2007-9-9 >