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Leadeng Leadeng asked on 18 May 2009, 10:20 PM

After installing WebUI Test Studio, staring VS 2008 displays an error saying that Package cannot be loaded. Has anyone comeacross this error before?

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Microsoft Visual Studio
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Package Load Failure

Package 'ArtOfTest.WebAiiVSIP.WebAiiVSIP, ArtOfTest.WebAiiVSIP, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=14176981d1873d86' has failed to load properly ( GUID = {D5EDEC6D-8025-40CF-987C-B8EABA2C7451} ). 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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Any help would be appreciated.

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answered on 22 May 2009, 06:02 AM

Hi Leadeng Leadeng,

There's a good MSDN blog for how to troubleshoot this type of problem located at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/dr._ex/archive/2006/12/14/debugging-package-load-failures.aspx.

Together we're going to follow it and get to the bottom of this problem.

First open a command prompt and then change to the IDE subdirectory. Normally, for VS2008, the default is at:

c:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE

Yours may be different if you installed somewhere other than the default location. Then enter:

devenv /ResetSkipPkgs

at the command prompt. The purpose is to reset any Skip Package Load flags that were turned on during previous sessions. See if you still get the Package Load Failure dialog.

If you do then we're going to ask for you to create a log of VS2008 loading. To do that, exit VS2008, and at the command prompt enter:

devenv /log

Let VS load get the error, close the error dialog and close VS. A log should have been created but you may have to do a little hunting for it because it's created in your own AppData folder. On my machine it gets created at:

C:\Users\cgibson\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0

The file is called 'ActivityLog.xml'. Please send us that file to study. You need to open a support ticket to attach files.

We look forward to hearing back from you soon.

All the best,
Cody
the Telerik team

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