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

[329 byte] By [nrv] at [2007-12-17]

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# 1

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).

TomHirst at 2007-9-8 >

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# 2

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#

RustyMiller at 2007-9-8 >

# 3

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

Krisande at 2007-9-8 >

# 4

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

PhilipHutchinson at 2007-9-8 >

# 5

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

nrv at 2007-9-8 >

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