WinFX Feb CTP Installation Error

Posted by Jake Good
on Feb 28, 06

For those of you who are getting either one of the following errors:



During your Build Process of a WinFX Project:




Error 1 The "Microsoft.Build.Tasks.Windows.GetWinFXPath" task could not 
be loaded from the assembly PresentationBuildTasks, Version=3.0.51116.0, 
Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35. Could not load file or 
assembly 'PresentationBuildTasks, Version=3.0.51116.0, Culture=neutral, 
PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The system 
cannot find the file specified. Confirm that the  declaration 
is correct, and that the assembly and all its dependencies are available.


or



During creation of a new WinFX Project:




"Package Load Failure" 
Package "PresentationDesignVisualStudio has failed to load properly ( 
GUID = {E582A8B-BCC4-4559-AD59-D62EB6D58A22} ). Please contact package 
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 'devenv /resetskipppkgs' to 
re-enable package loading.


Check out the following post to the newsgroups (I posted GooberDLX): post



The process seems to be simple to fix:




  1. Uninstall WinFX SDK.

  2. Move “C:Program FilesReference Assemblies” to a different folder (I renamed it to “_Reference Assemblies”).

  3. Repair WinFX RC Feb.



Try it out, let me know how it goes… I’m doing it currently and so far it’s working smoothly.



UPDATE



All I had to do was uninstall everything, delete the reference assemblies folder, and reinstall everything. Worked like a charm. In case you accidentally hit “Yes, I want to skip loading these packages” when you were recieving errors, just start Visual Studio 2005 from the command line with the /resetskippkgs parameter…

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