I installed StrataFrame trial this morning and now I am unable to launch Visual Studio. I launch VS 2005 and get the splash screen showing no installed products and then VS comes up and is immediatly closed.

I am running Visual Studio Team System and several add on components and was in VS 2005 this morning prior to the install of StrataFrame. I do get the following error in the application section of the event viewer:

.NET Runtime version 2.0.50727.42 - Fatal Execution Engine Error (7A05E2B3) (80131506)

From the command prompt, navigate to the Visual Studio directory (default C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\) and type devenv.exe /setup. Then try to re-launch Visual Studio and let me know what happens.



Since we don't use a VsPackage and all of our VsCommands are removed by the uninstall, it's quite troublesome that it still fails even after the uninstall. We don't use a VsPackage, just a few VsCommands to launch our addins, so I'm not entirely sure how the installed VsPackages could have been disrupted.



I'm currently searching for some more info on the result returned by the ExecutionEngineException to see if I can determine what happened.



If the devenv.exe /setup doesn't restore Visual Studio, then you should probably run a "repair install" of Visual Studio from the Add & Remove Programs in the Control Panel; at least then you won't be dead in the water all day.