Running Visual Studio15 and Atmel Studio7

Question

I'm currently facing a problem trying to run Visual Studio 15 Enterprise Update 1 and Atmel Studio 7 Build 634 together on Windows 10 Education.

I can open and operate VisualStudio without any problem.

However, when I try to run AtmelStudio, I get multiple "package not found" errors, telling me to look into the ActivityLog under "...\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\AppEnv\14.0". Since I don't know how to put the important part into the editor here, I'll give you a link to the file on my dropbox. ActivityLog.xml

I've already tried multiple re-installs, changed the order of installing and looked up a few other threads, that suggested clearing different folders in Local and Roaming, but none of that helped.

Any ideas?

Edit 12.12.15: As Devon1337 suggested, the error is caused due to the update 1 of Visual Studio 15 Enterprise, which by the way is already included in Visual Studio 15 Community.

Workaround:

1. Deinstall both
2. Install Atmel Studio 7
3. Install Visual Studio 15 Enterprise afterwards and do not install Update 1 (uncheck it in the install-configurator)

Answer 1

Download System.Collections.Immutable version 1.1.36 from nuget

Extract the file (it's a zip file), go to \lib\< name>\ and copy the System.Collections.Immutable.dll file into < studio installation dir >\Extensions\Application

http://www.avrfreaks.net/comment/1731666#comment-1731666

Answer 2

Update March 10, 2016:

Atmel has released an updated version build 790 that seems to have resolved this issue. You can perform an update from inside Atmel Studio or re-download the installer and reinstall. The release notes do not indicate this is fixed, but I have confirmed the issue is gone since I did a reinstall.

This is related to some conflict between VS2015 and Atmel Studio 7. I didn't have this issue until I updated to VS2015 from 2013. You have to update a config file under AppData\Local\Atmel\AtmelStudio\7.0. In that config file you will find the setting:

<dependentAssembly>
    <assemblyIdentity name="System.Collections.Immutable" publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a" culture="neutral"/>
    <bindingRedirect oldVersion="1.0.27.0-1.1.65535.65535" newVersion="1.1.37.0"/>
</dependentAssembly>

System.Collections.Immutable newVersion should be 1.1.37.0 instead of 1.1.36.0. I had to restart my PC after this change. Once you load Atmel Studio after a reboot, it will perform some update to the packages.