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Visual Studio 2008 Package Load Failure

Symptoms

You install one version of Visual Studio such as Visual Studio Express (VB, C# or Web) and then patched it to Service Pack 1.  At a subsequent time you install another version such as Visual Studio 2008 Standard or Professional edition but do not re-install the service pack.

When you launch Visual Studio you may get package load failures such as the following:


Package Load Failure



Example:

Package 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Xaml' has failed to load properly ( GUID = {E58C2A8B-BCC4-4559-AD59-D62EB6D58A22} ). 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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Cause

The different versions of Visual Studio need to be at the same service pack level.

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Resolution

To fix the problem, you can run the standalone Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 installer. This should leave both the Express SKU and the Standard SKU with a working WPF designer, service packed to SP1.

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More Information

The error can also occur during use of the Visual Studio IDE.

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Article Info
Article ID : 2292664
Revision : 1
Created on : 1/7/2017
Published on : 7/22/2010
Exists online : False
Views : 105