I’m using TFS Power Tools (Oct 2008 release). The Visual Studio 2008 was working fine until I start getting this very annoying “Package Load Failure” error. I didn’t install/uninstall anything but something somehow magically got changed.

Error Description:

Package 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFoundation.PowerTools.TfptPackage, Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFoundation.PowerTools, Version=9.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' has failed to load properly ( GUID = {2C5A58FF-51D1-46CC-B46C-CD458632B321} ). 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 /resetskippkgs' to re-enable package loading.

Resolution:

• When you get this error, select “NO”.
• Close all your SSMS/Visual Studio instances.
• Go to Control Panel/Add-remove Programs/Select TFS Power Tools. Do NOT try to repair, I’ve tried it and it does NOT work. Uninstall it. Period.
• Open the Visual Studio 2008 Command Prompt and run devenv /resetskippkgs
• Re-download the Power Tools msi (link above) and reinstall and pray to God, hopefully, you’ll not get “Package Load Failure” again. :)

Good luck!

1 Comment

• Rancho said Tuesday, December 29, 2009 5:11:45 PM

  Thank you so much for such an awesome help. It worked like a charm.