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VS2010 HatPackage did not load correctly

Sander — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 07:46:15 +0000

This morning when I started Visual Studio 2010 it threw a wobbly at me. It seemed the Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.HatPackage did not load correctly. Of course I tried to Google for this error but I was unable to find anything useful apart from trying to repair the Visual Studio installation. Fortunately I have the /Log option set in the shortcut so I had a logfile with the errors. Unfortunately, apart from the error that the package did not load the log contained nothing useful.

After trying a few times (hoping it would go away) there was one time where a dialog popped up with a reference to a file called VersionControl.config. Needless to say I clicked it away before I could actually read it but at least now I had a filename and a little more information.

The file is located in %UserProfile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\Team Foundation\3.0\Cache and as Visual Studio told me, it contained nothing but garbage. As all Microsoft .config files contain XML I figured this to be the problem I deleted the file and restarted Visual Studio: problem solved!

So, if you happen to encounter the error:

The 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.HatPackage, Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFoundation.VersionControl, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' package did not load correctly.

You should check the VersionControl.config file before resorting to a Visual Studio reinstallation.

TFDP – T4 For Database Projects

Sander — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:16:12 +0000

After working on this for some time, I’ve decided that it was time to publish TFDP to a wider audience. TFDP provides T4 template processing in Visual Studio 2010 database projects. Something that isn’t possible in the current versions.

The extension can be found in the Visual Studio Gallery and on Codeplex.

Export Locals

Sander — Wed, 11 May 2011 06:00:09 +0000

Introduction:

In this forum thread (warning: Dutch) someone was complaining that it’s not really easy to export the contents of the Locals debug window to a XML file. I’ve neved had the need for that myself but I thought, it can’t be that hard. Turns out it isn’t.

I’ve written a VS2010 add-in that adds a menu item to the Tools menu in Visual Studio that will export all the locals for the current stack frame and open the XML file in Visual Studio. As always a picture says more than a thousand words so see for yourself:

A program in debug mode, notice the Locals window in the left bottom:

Export the locals via the menu option:

The exported XML document is opened in Visual Studio:

For now it will export to 2 levels deep, any more than that will make it incredibly slow.

Downloads:

The VSIX can be downloaded here: ExportLocals.vsix

The sources can be downloaded here: ExportLocals.zip

Or you can install the add in via the Visual Studio Gallery