Visual Studio.NET problem: EnvDTE missing or not found

I un-installed Visual XSLT the other day and it broke my Visual Studio.NET install. When I created a new Windows Application, VS.NET would fail to display Form1 in the Form Designer with the exception "File or assembly name EnvDTE, or one of its dependencies, was not found." I believe the problem was caused by un-installing Visual XSLT. Luckily the fix was simple.

Under the .NET Framework directory C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v1.0.3705\ you will find the envdte.dll assembly. Copy this file to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET\Common7\IDE\ and you should be good to go. Of course you will need to adjust the drive letters based on your configuration.

This fix worked for me. Hopefully it will work for you if you are experiencing the same problem.

posted by Kirby Turner | 21-Oct-2002 5:57 PM | comments (7)

Boy thanks, that sure helped me out.

posted by me | October 22 06:36 AM

Kirby, thank you! You saved me from a complete re-install. I have got the same problem when disinstalling VS.NET 2003. Also, Solution Explorer disappeared (but with View/Solution Explorer menu command I was able to restore it).

posted by Alessio (Italy) | July 3 05:18 AM

Mine was uninstalling ESRI ArcGIS! Thanks!

posted by me2 | December 9 08:57 PM

thanks kirby
had un-installed visual xslt n got this issue.
u saved me a re-install

posted by sanjay | January 10 02:33 AM

Thanks. I had exactly the same problem. The VisualXSLT uninstall is still broken...

posted by Rob | June 2 12:55 PM

This just happened to me...but now fixed...thanks

posted by kevin hazeldine | October 10 06:50 PM

same problem with me...but now fixed...thanks

posted by vivek chauhan | July 7 09:00 AM

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