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I have downloaded and installed the free Community Edition of VS 2015 from Microsoft. After the install, I am unable to use VS 2013 Professional, which was working fine before the install. The start page shows, "Content Load Error". The solution explorer shows the following errors: An exception was encountered while constructing the content of this frame. This information is also logged in "C:\Users\VeluMain\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ActivityLog.xml".

Exception details: System.IO.FileNotFoundException: The specified module could not be found. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x8007007E) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IVsShell5.LoadPackageWithContext(Guid& packageGuid, Int32 reason, Guid& context) at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Platform.WindowManagement.WindowFrame.GetPackage() at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Platform.WindowManagement.WindowFrame.ConstructContent()

I searched in Google, but couldn't find any solution.

Thanks

Massey
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It's possible that one of your plugins for VS2013 has been broken by the VS2015 installer. For example I had an issue where VS2015 installer also installed .NET Framework 4.6 which alters the .NET Framework 4.5.1 DLLs, I guess there's a chance it could be the same kind of thing...

Try running VS2013 in Safe Mode (i.e. without plugins). If this works fine then you know it's one of your plugins that is causing the issue, you should then use a process of elimination to determine which one is the culprit. If it doesn't work then you might want to reinstall VS2013.

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