addin problem

Hi All,

 I installed the SP1 on my system, and from then itself I wasnt able to see the server explorer on my dev environment, and also was not able to create a Connection data string.I used the get the error

"object reference not set to a instance of an object"

 

No re-installations of the VS work.

I googled for the solutions, and it came to rescue! There was a post on a blog which stated :

 "

Recently I faced a situation where a software developer using Visual Studio 2008 wasn't able to do virtually anything in database projects.
It was possible to create a new database project, but on many operations, including Import Database Schema and New Schema Comparison an error message stating Object reference not set to an instance of an object was shown.

I was told that reinstall of Visual Studio doesn't help. Also System Restore made situation only worse.
Accidentally it was discovered that this is a per-user problem (only developers account was affected). After some research I discovered that most likely some of Visual Studio components have had some problems previously so they were skipped from loading.

So a simple

"%ProgramFiles%/Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0/Common7/IDE/devenv.exe" /ResetSkipPkgs

 

in Command Prompt of developers account solved this problem.
Most likely this method (resetting skipped packages) can also solve some other "cryptic" per-user problems of Visual Studio 2008.

"

 

It worked fantastically well !! Saving me through all the pain of finding such non-sensical errors! 

 Posting it for all to benefit, just in case!

 

 

 

VS 2008 SP1,安装后，安装silverlight插件 ，打开silverlight 项目后 出现Object reference not set to an instance of an object" 错误，反复卸载再安装不行。

网上找到了一个办法和各位共享：http://forums.asp.net/p/1379913/2914422.aspx

在运行框中输入："%Pro"%ProgramFiles%/Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0/Common7/IDE/devenv.exe" /ResetSkipPkgs

VS2008 重新打开后发现问题解决。