BuildVision: CreateInstance failed - VisualStudio 2015

Today BuildVision simply didn’t load when I started Visual Studio 2015. It has been installed 1 or 2 months ago, no other update or extension was installed on Visual Studio. An error message was displayed suggesting to look at Visual Studio ActivityLog.xml file. There I found following entries:

  <entry>
    <record>582</record>
    <time>2017/08/11 13:15:48.148</time>
    <type>Information</type>
    <source>VisualStudio</source>
    <description>Begin package load [BuildVisionPackage]</description>
    <guid>{837C3C3B-8382-4839-9C9A-807B758A929F}</guid>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <record>583</record>
    <time>2017/08/11 13:15:48.163</time>
    <type>Error</type>
    <source>VisualStudio</source>
    <description>CreateInstance failed for package [BuildVisionPackage]Source: &apos;mscorlib&apos; Description: Could not load file or assembly &apos;Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.15.0, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a&apos; or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.&#x000D;&#x000A;System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly &apos;Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.15.0, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a&apos; or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.&#x000D;&#x000A;File name: &apos;Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.15.0, Version=15.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a&apos;&#x000D;&#x000A;   at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.GetType(RuntimeAssembly assembly, String name, Boolean throwOnError, Boolean ignoreCase, ObjectHandleOnStack type)&#x000D;&#x000A;   at System.Reflection.RuntimeAssembly.GetType(String name, Boolean throwOnError, Boolean ignoreCase)&#x000D;&#x000A;   at System.Activator.CreateInstanceFromInternal(String assemblyFile, String typeName, Boolean ignoreCase, BindingFlags bindingAttr, Binder binder, Object[] args, CultureInfo culture, Object[] activationAttributes, Evidence securityInfo)&#x000D;&#x000A;   at System.AppDomain.CreateInstanceFrom(String assemblyFile, String typeName)&#x000D;&#x000A;&#x000D;&#x000A;WRN: Assembly binding logging is turned OFF.&#x000D;&#x000A;To enable assembly bind failure logging, set the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog] (DWORD) to 1.&#x000D;&#x000A;Note: There is some performance penalty associated with assembly bind failure logging.&#x000D;&#x000A;To turn this feature off, remove the registry value [HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Fusion!EnableLog].&#x000D;&#x000A;</description>
    <guid>{837C3C3B-8382-4839-9C9A-807B758A929F}</guid>
    <hr>80004005 - E_FAIL</hr>
    <errorinfo></errorinfo>
  </entry>

I tried to restart Visual Studio, restart PC, uninstall BuildVision and install again, all in vain. Could it be that Visual Studio has automatically updated to v2.0 that has just been released and it is broken?

About this issue

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  • State: closed
  • Created 7 years ago
  • Comments: 16 (9 by maintainers)

Most upvoted comments

Ok. Under invastigation. Will provide an Update asap!

Thanks for the quick fix. You don’t realize how valuable BuildVision is until you don’t have it

Release 2.0.1 Is out now! Sorry for the inconvenience 😃 Should be working now with VS 2013 and VS 2015.

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If you still have a problem with this reopen, I will close this for now. If you got other feedback, feature requests or bugs please create an issue and let us know, we really appreciate any feedback 😃