When starting Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition I get the following error;

Package Load Failure

Package ‘Visual Studio Explores and Designer Package’ has failed to load properly (GUID={8D8529D3-625D-4496-8354-3DAD630ECC1B} Please contact  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 ‘VWDExpress/resetskippkgs’ to re-enable package loading.

After Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition loads, I only have HTML in the toolbox and I cannot see the properties at all. Since I do not have any of the other tools available such as Standard, Data, and Validation etc, I also cannot seem to use any of the code. Could someone help me on this, anybody else having this issue? This is on a Windows XP SP2

I have ran VWDExpress /resetsettings, but this did not seem to solve the issue.

I am going to uninstall all the components and reinstall them.

I know I had a similar problem on one of the beta releases, and re-install did fix the problem

ForvusMoth wrote:

I finally got this working last night, all I did was delete the duplicate assemblies from the %windir%/assembly directory. Once I deleted them all I restarted Visual Web Developer and it worked first time, no problems. I then installed C# Express on top with no problems either.

Thanks ForrusMoth! You also soled my problem.

What I did is select ALL files and in that "assembly" folder and then select "uninstall". This will uninstall all assemblies that are currently being used (in my case, it uninstalled about 300 some assemblies files and still have 400 some files will not be able to uninstall). After that, the VS 2005 is working! I "repair installed" the .Net Framework and VS 2005 (just in case I may missing something due to the uninstall assemblies). It is working great now!

This led me think why Microsoft did not find this problem when people doing the beta testing! Microsoft now should let everyone know that they should uninstall the old assemblies to fix the same problem many people have.

Thanks ForvusMoth again!

For me, the problem was caused by changing the default installation directory for Visual Web Developer Express.  The Reporting Add-In does not give an option for where it installs.  I uninstalled VWDE and reinstalled using the default path and then uninstalled and reinstalled the Reporting Add-In.

Problem fixed.