Getting errors after installing Productivity Power Tools

Question

I've just downloaded and installed the Productivity Power Tools for Visual Studio 2010. I got out of VS 2010, and got back in, so that it would load the new add-in. The moment it got back in I started to get a lot of error messages. For example:

• "The 'VSTS for Database Professionals Sql Server Data-tier Application' package did not load correctly."

• "The 'RadLangSvc.Pac​kage, RadLangSvc.VS, Version=10.0.0.​0, Culture=neutral​, PublicKeyToken=​' package did not load correctly."

• "The 'Language Package' package did not load correctly."

This is just some of the error messages I got immediately after installing this add-in. In all cases, after each error message there was the additional text:

"The problem may have been caused by a configuration change or by the installation of another extension." (Somewhat of an obvious comment here.)

Have others experienced this problem with the Productivity Power Tools add-in? Is the only way of solving this problem, is to uninstall it? Or is there another way of making it work? (There are things in this add-in, which I would really like to use.)

Answer 1

I had the same problem on both my home and work computers. These exact steps worked on one of them.

• Uninstall all addons that cause errors to occur.
• Locate your Visual Studio 2010 installation media.

• In the \WCU\DAC folder, you’ll find three MSIs;

  DACFramework_enu.msi
  DACProjectSystemSetup_enu.msi
  TSqlLanguageService_enu.msi
  

  • Run and install each of them.
• Reapply Visual Studio 2010 SP1.
• Reinstall the addons.

As with most microsoft products I presume it was the sequence in which I did things that made it work one time and not the other. I suggest if this doesnt solve the issue you mix and skip steps as appropriate until you get it working.

One additional step I used was to run Visual Studio from the command line as follows;

devenv.exe /resetskippkgs

I did this before uninstalling and reinstalling the addons. Whether it made a difference is debatable, but in the interest of full disclosure...

Answer 2

The thing that did it for me was installing the .NET 4.5 framework. It is not necessary to re-install VS2010 SP1.