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How do I clean up Visual Studio 2008 Package Load Failures?

Asked by hadyc in Visual Studio, .Net Editors & IDEs

Tags: Visual Studio 2008, package, add-in, PLK

I get a bunch of "invalid Package Load Key" for some (maybe all) of the Visual Studio packages I have installed (e.g. TFPT, CodeRush, GhostDoc and PowerCommands). It looks like VS is trying to load the package or look for a PLK in multiple places, failing the first few times (3 times for TFPT below) but eventually succeeding.

This is not crippling me, it's just annoying: I cannot check the "Common Language Runtime Exceptions" until the Exp Hive has fully loaded, and I have to do it in every debug session if I want to catch exceptions. In fact this might have been happening on my machine for a long time, but I never noticed it since I never needed to debug a project that launches VS (Exp Hive or not) as an external program.

Anyone else seen this? How can I clean up the invalid VS package search locations? Let me know if you need more details to be able to troubleshoot, I would be more than happy to oblige.

The xml attached is an excerpt from the VS "ActiveLog.xml", it shows the TFPT package loading attempts: 3 failures, then success. 
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<entry>
    <record>22</record>
    <time>2009/10/14 15:08:00.376</time>
    <type>Warning</type>
    <source>Microsoft Visual Studio Appid Stub</source>
    <description>CheckPackageSignature failed; invalid Package Load Key</description>
    <guid>{2C5A58FF-51D1-46CC-B46C-CD458632B321}</guid>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <record>23</record>
    <time>2009/10/14 15:08:00.407</time>
    <type>Warning</type>
    <source>Microsoft Visual Studio Appid Stub</source>
    <description>CheckPackageSignature failed; invalid Package Load Key</description>
    <guid>{2C5A58FF-51D1-46CC-B46C-CD458632B321}</guid>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <record>24</record>
    <time>2009/10/14 15:08:00.423</time>
    <type>Warning</type>
    <source>Microsoft Visual Studio Appid Stub</source>
    <description>CheckPackageSignature failed; invalid Package Load Key</description>
    <guid>{2C5A58FF-51D1-46CC-B46C-CD458632B321}</guid>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <record>25</record>
    <time>2009/10/14 15:08:00.423</time>
    <type>Information</type>
    <source>Microsoft Visual Studio</source>
    <description>Begin package load [Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFoundation.PowerTools.TfptPackage, Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFoundation.PowerTools, Version=9.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a]</description>
    <guid>{2C5A58FF-51D1-46CC-B46C-CD458632B321}</guid>
  </entry>
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