I have a solution with a lot of projects targeting .net framework but not any with .core NuGet. The case is that, quite occasionally I started getting the following error while trying to set up any package from manage NuGet packages
HRESULT E_FAIL has been returned from a call to a COM component
Did someone run into the same issue and how you managed to resolve it
Go to your C:\Users\{USER}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio folder, and you should find a folder in there called 15_{id}. Open it, and have a look at the ActivityLog.xml. If you have a look in it you should find the error in there and the library that's causing it. In my case it was caused by Microsoft.visualstudio.shell.interop.IVsReferenceManager2 within the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.11.0.dll library.
This post helped me solve the issue then: Msdn forum
1.Open "Developer Command Prompt for VS 2017" as Admin
2.CD into "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies"
3.Run "gacutil -i Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.11.0.dll"
After a restart, it all worked well.
Please Follow the Source referencemanagerpackage-fails-to-install-vs-2017-community-edition
