cppcheck-vs-addin: CPPCheckPluginPackage did not load correctly: VS2013

The following error occurs while trying to load the plugin following installation: untitled

In the activity log is:

  <entry>
    <record>853</record>
    <time>2015/07/01 05:36:11.686</time>
    <type>Error</type>
    <source>VisualStudio</source>
    <description>End package load [CPPCheckPluginPackage]</description>
    <guid>{127D8BD3-8CD7-491A-9A63-9B4E89118DA9}</guid>
    <hr>80004005 - E_FAIL</hr>
    <errorinfo>Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.11.0, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.</errorinfo>
  </entry>

Where I noted the use of *.Shell.11.0

Going into the extension folder and changing the following entry in “extension.vsixmanifest”

<Dependency Id="Microsoft.VisualStudio.MPF.11.0" DisplayName="Visual Studio MPF 11.0" Version="11.0" />

manually to replace 11.0 with 12.0 causes the plugin to work fine.

After downloading and poking around the project, and around the internet, I’ve discovered what I believe to be related to the issue: Using CTRL+SHIFT+F, and searching for “11.0” yields

Find all "11.0", Subfolders, Find Results 1, "Entire Solution ( Including External Items )", "*.cs;*.resx;*.resw;*.xsd;*.wsdl;*.xaml;*.xml;*.htm;*.html;*.css"
  ~\cppcheck-vs-addin-master\CPPCheckPlugin\CPPCheckPluginPackage.cs(17):    [DefaultRegistryRoot(@"Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0")]
  ~\cppcheck-vs-addin-master\CPPCheckPlugin\Properties\Settings.Designer.cs(16):    [global::System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("Microsoft.VisualStudio.Editors.SettingsDesigner.SettingsSingleFileGenerator", "11.0.0.0")]
  Matching lines: 2    Matching files: 2    Total files searched: 29

Replacing those instances of 11.0 with 12.0, building, and installing the build also resolves the issue for me.

I don’t know nearly enough about C# or the VS SDK, but I also found: github.com and stackoverflow.com which may be relevant to fixing the issue in a robust fashion.

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 9 years ago
Comments: 74 (25 by maintainers)

Commits related to this issue

Merge pull request #143 from nicolastagliani/master Fix to #142: Plugin did not load correctly in VS2013 — committed to VioletGiraffe/cppcheck-vs-addin by VioletGiraffe 9 years ago

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On Visual Studio 2012/Windows 7 64bit it is also not working (realease 1.3.3):

<entry>
    <record>450</record>
    <time>2017/01/10 16:03:52.004</time>
    <type>Information</type>
    <source>VisualStudio</source>
    <description>Begin package load [CPPCheckPluginPackage]</description>
    <guid>{127D8BD3-8CD7-491A-9A63-9B4E89118DA9}</guid>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <record>451</record>
    <time>2017/01/10 16:03:52.016</time>
    <type>Error</type>
    <source>VisualStudio</source>
    <description>CreateInstance failed for package [CPPCheckPluginPackage]</description>
    <guid>{127D8BD3-8CD7-491A-9A63-9B4E89118DA9}</guid>
    <hr>80070002</hr>
    <errorinfo>Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.11.0, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.</errorinfo>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <record>452</record>
    <time>2017/01/10 16:03:52.016</time>
    <type>Error</type>
    <source>VisualStudio</source>
    <description>End package load [CPPCheckPluginPackage]</description>
    <guid>{127D8BD3-8CD7-491A-9A63-9B4E89118DA9}</guid>
    <hr>80004005 - E_FAIL</hr>
    <errorinfo>Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.11.0, Version=14.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.</errorinfo>
  </entry>

andrei-dragusanu on Jan 12, 2017

@VioletGiraffe Here is my release build. It worked on my win7 64-bit with only VS2013 installed. CppcheckPlugin.zip

T-Jin on Sep 21, 2016