VS 2005 won't load after 2010_1_519

[Michael]

"A Problem was encountered initializing commands and menus. The merged file was loaded, but it contained no valid commands. Please run setup and select Repair."

I uninstalled Q4 2009 and installed 2010_1_519 AJAX. Silverlight Q4 I uninstalled but did not install Silverlight 3 2010_1 because I need to locate RIA files for Silverlight 3.

I'm able to use VS 2008 but when I tried to fire up VS 2005, I got the following message.

Any advice on how to proceed? thank you -

[Petar]

Hi Michael,

I would suggest you to reset Visual Studio IDE. During this reset all menu items are re-initialized so any existing problem should be fixed.

You can reset the IDE by following these few steps:

1. Close all Visual Studio 2005 instances;
2. Open the Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt;
3. Run devenv.com /setup command;

If you need additional assistance, do not hesitate to let us know.

All the best,
Petar
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[Michael]

Hi, Petar,

I had located this solution and tried it but to no effect. I've tried it again but still when i try to load VS 2005 I get the same message.

Thanks,
Michael

[Erjan Gavalji]

Hi Michael,

Can you try running Visual Studio 2005 with log enabled and send us the log file?
Here are the steps to do that:

• Start a Visual Studio 2005 command prompt
• run devenv.exe /Log C:\VS2005Log.txt

Send us the VS2005Log.txt file, located in your C:\ drive.

I hope the log file would give us some more information about what caused the error.
Kind regards,
Erjan Gavalji
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[Michael]

Here are the contents of that file. It describes itself as VS 8 though it is the VS 2005 prompt. I had both versions of VS working side by side with no problems up to this point.

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="ActivityLog.xsl"?>
<activity>
  <entry>
    <record>1</record>
    <time>2010/05/31 16:21:11.362</time>
    <type>Information</type>
    <source>Microsoft Visual Studio</source>
    <description>Visual Studio Version: 8.0.50727.867</description>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <record>2</record>
    <time>2010/05/31 16:21:11.364</time>
    <type>Information</type>
    <source>Microsoft Visual Studio</source>
    <description>Running in User Groups: Administrators Users</description>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <record>3</record>
    <time>2010/05/31 16:21:11.365</time>
    <type>Information</type>
    <source>Microsoft Visual Studio</source>
    <description>ProductID: 77626-009-0000007-41752</description>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <record>4</record>
    <time>2010/05/31 16:21:11.366</time>
    <type>Information</type>
    <source>Microsoft Visual Studio</source>
    <description>Available Drive Space: C:\ drive has 212939640832 bytes; Q:\ drive has 2473050112 bytes</description>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <record>5</record>
    <time>2010/05/31 16:21:11.368</time>
    <type>Information</type>
    <source>Microsoft Visual Studio</source>
    <description>Internet Explorer Version: 8.0.7600.16535</description>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <record>6</record>
    <time>2010/05/31 16:21:11.369</time>
    <type>Information</type>
    <source>Microsoft Visual Studio</source>
    <description>Microsoft Data Access Version: 6.1.7600.16385</description>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <record>7</record>
    <time>2010/05/31 16:21:11.370</time>
    <type>Information</type>
    <source>Microsoft Visual Studio</source>
    <description>.NET Framework Version: 2.0.50727.4927</description>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <record>8</record>
    <time>2010/05/31 16:21:11.372</time>
    <type>Information</type>
    <source>Microsoft Visual Studio</source>
    <description>MSXML Version: 6.30.7600.16385</description>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <record>9</record>
    <time>2010/05/31 16:21:11.374</time>
    <type>Information</type>
    <source>Microsoft Visual Studio</source>
    <description>Loading UI library</description>
    <guid>{DA9FB551-C724-11D0-AE1F-00A0C90FFFC3}</guid>
    <path>C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\*\msenvui.dll</path>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <record>10</record>
    <time>2010/05/31 16:21:13.862</time>
    <type></type>
    <source>Microsoft Visual Studio</source>
    <description>Destroying Main Window</description>
  </entry>
</activity>

[Erjan Gavalji]

Hi Michael,

The version Visual Studio 2005 is 8.0, so there is nothing to worry about that.

The log file denotes that something in the VS installation has broken though - the IDE gets shut down right after the Loading UI library step.

I'm afraid we don't have any other information regarding to that. I would recommend that you run the Visual Studio 2005 setup and run a repair, followed by installing VS2005 service pack.

Kind regards,
Erjan Gavalji
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