Hi John,
Just had this same problem. It is caused by duplicate assemblies with
different version numbers. The following article shows you where to
delete the duplicates from:
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/produc...ID=FDBK24236#2
I had a number of duplicates and once I deleted them everything worked
A-OK.
Hope that helps,
Mike
John Wright wrote:[color=blue]
> I justed loaded BETA 2 and it cause quite a few problems. Every time I try
> to view the designer I get the following error:
>
> Could not load type
> 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IVsRunningDo cumentTable2' from
> assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.8.0,
> Version=8.0.0.0,Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken-b03f5f7f11d50a3a' and it
> will not show the designer. I get this error in VB Express as well. I have
> reinstalled, repaired, installed all the updates and I still cannot get this
> to work. When loading other options I get
>
> Package 'Visual Studio Explorers and Designers Package' has failed to load
> properly (GUID=.....) Please contact package vendor for assistance.
> Application restart is recommened, due to possible environment corruption.
> Would you like to disable loading this package in the future? ....
>
> Errors. And I get many of the same loading these packages. I have XP
> running SP 2.
>
> I finally removed BETA 2 but still get this error running express. Can any
> one give me a push in the right direction?
>
> John[/color]