[RESOLVED] Strange message about a package that failed to load properly

[iliekater]

Suddenly today , when I started my computer and went on to open the VS , I got this strange message :



Do you know what it might mean ? I didn't installed anything on my PC for a long time , so I can't think of anything ...

[Grimfort]

Have you looked at any of the 11.9 million entries on google?


Please run devenv.exe with the /log command line argument, seems to come up a lot, heres an example. Once you have the log, it may give more info.

[iliekater]

The best thing I could find was here :
http://www.telerik.com/automated-tes...d-failure.aspx
It says I should use the Command Prompt to get to :
c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE
(which I did) and there I should type :
devenv /ResetSkipPkgs
However , in that directory there is no Devenv.exe file ...

[Sitten Spynne]

You don't have devenv.exe because the IDE is called something different in VB Express Edition. If you read the error message it tells you what to type.

[iliekater]

Yes , you wrote just a few seconds before me ! Instead of the devenv.exe there is a vbexpress.exe file . However , even with this one the problem still insists ...

[Grimfort]

Not got express, maybe it is a different name. You can right-click your VS shortcut and find the .exe file it points to, maybe its in a (x86) directory on a 64 box?

Try the /log

[iliekater]

No , the shortcut indeed points to vbexpress.exe .

I just tried installing the Power Pack 3.0 , but the problem still exists . I think I'll have to disable the loading of that package . The thing is , is it important or not ? I see it's called "Visual Studio Logging Package" . What is it useful to ?

[iliekater]

What the ... ? I think it's playing with me . Now the problem is gone ! The only thing I can say I did is that I first denied the package to load , the next day restarted the PC , opened and saved a project and today when I reset the settings (vbexpress/ResetSkipPkgs) , the IDE started normally !

[Shaggy Hiker]

Doesn't surprise me any, frankly.

Things fall apart, the center doesn't hold, mere anarchy is loosed upon the development environment.

Some internal item got messed up. The actions you took got it unmessed (or is it messed down?). In any case, it went away, and will likely stay away. I've seen this happen before with VS, though never this exact message. I do have one project that periodically forgets about a sub-project within the solution. Your solution seems about right.