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Server Explorer Unavailable (VS2008Pro)

I recently had problems with my VS 2008, and I was recommended to reinstall. To make sure that reinstalling will solve my problems, I manually deleted everything that could deal with VS and SQL Server (I had version 2008 Express).

Now when I reinstall SQL Server and Visual Studio, Server Explorer in VS is dead. When I click on the menu item "View \ Server Explorer", I get an error message in the "Exit" window:

The Visual Studio Development Kit ({8D8529D3-625D-4496-8354-3DAD630ECC1B}) did not load due to previous errors. For help, contact your package provider. To try downloading this package again, type "devenv / resetsippkgs" at the command prompt.

I run the proposed command, but when I try again, I get the same error message.

How can i solve this? Since I work with the Entity Framework, it is very important that VS can connect to my database ... Any help is greatly appreciated!

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Looking back and forth on the Internet, having typed many different answers, I finally managed to achieve this. This was my solution:

  • Close all open instances of Visual Studio.

  • Open a command prompt in the context of the administrator by going to Start \ All Programs \ Accessories , right-click the Command Prompt, and select Run as Administrator .

  • Go to the installation path of VS2008 - in my case (by default in Vista x64) it was ** C: \ Program Files (x86) \ Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 9.0 \ Common7 \ IDE **

  • Run the devenv / setup command. It will take a little time, but be patient.

  • Launch Visual Studio.

After completing these steps, the default setting is reset, so you will have to reconfigure all startup parameters, fonts for text editors, etc. This could be helped by doing devenv / resetsippkgs instead, however it was not on my machine.

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I also had a problem with Visual Studio 2008. However, following the devenv command line instructions did not help me. I basically had to live with it until Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (SP1) appeared. Since installing Service Pack 1, I have not had any problems with Server Explorer.

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Run "devenv / setup" as described above. Now start Visual Studio without opening any solution or project file. If Server Explorer opens at this point, delete all connections and data servers. Now exit and restart Visual Studio. Then open the solution or project file and the error will disappear. It worked for me.

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