November 11, 2003
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Alpha. Whidbey. Help! Help!

“Package load failure”. Package ‘VSCorePackage’ has failed to load properly ( GUID={7494682B-37A0-11D2-A273-00C04F8EF4FF} ). Please contact package vendor for assistance.  

Uninstalled, rebooted, reinstalled, rebooted, problem sticks.  :-(

Update: Apparently this error isn't really a sign of complete failure of the development environment, but rather a result of project file corruption. Before the problem occured, the C# compiler in VS tanked and obviously trashed the project file.  New projects still work as expected, but the project that causes this failure is broken.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2003 9:18:35 AM UTC
geeze Clemens, you broke it already? I'm really sorry I don't have any useful advice for you, but lots of sympathy if that helps.
Julie Lerman
Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:10:48 AM UTC
Did you include Crystal Reports in the setup? I had this problem until I wiped, reinstalled Longhorn, then installed Whidbey without CR.
Andy Hopper
Wednesday, November 12, 2003 10:34:52 AM UTC
Same problem here under VirtualPC 5.x, then I started again (kept a copy of the image), and it worked fine.

No problems on my desktop, either (2K3 server). Sorry. Uninstall Whidbey and reinstall it!??!
Nic Wise
Wednesday, November 12, 2003 11:31:45 AM UTC
I had the same problem when I used the recent projects menu and selected an solution with an item in it I'd deleted. when it asked me if I wanted to remove, I said "yes", and got that. Restarting devenv helped, but that solution was horked for all eternity.
Philip Rieck
Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:21:07 PM UTC
Philip is the hero. Thanks!
Clemens Vasters
Thursday, November 13, 2003 4:52:51 PM UTC
Clemens, you're my HotD (Hero of the Day). Since several days Whidbey presented my that annoying dialog, and refused to use Forms designer. Finally, I wrote my InitiliazeComponents manually. After reading your blog, I'll have a closer look at the proj files.

Hope to see you tonight ;-) (http://thomasfreudenberg.com/blog/posts/228.aspx)
Thomas Freudenberg
Thursday, November 13, 2003 5:20:17 PM UTC
Ooops, wrong link. Try this one: http://thomasfreudenberg.com/blog/posts/266.aspx
Thomas Freudenberg
Monday, November 17, 2003 8:06:42 PM UTC
Hi Clemens,

have the same problems with 'Whidbey' (on Windows 2000; no VM). :-( @ Philip: Thanks for the tip.

Welcome to alpha software ;-) I'm surprised how many functions display a message 'This feature is not included in the alpha release.'. I'm looking forward to get the beta to be able to really work with Whidbey.

Best Regards, Neno
Neno
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