Dear Sir/Madam,
We are using SQL Server 2012 in our company. Today we mistakenly uninstalled the 'Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Isolated) - ENU' and 'Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Shell (Integrated) - ENU'.
After this, we are getting error while trying to open the SSMS. The error is as follows: "Cannot find one or more components. Please reinstall the application". I searched and came across following article regarding this error:
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/3dd6f643-720f-4878-9594-894da73efd46/sqlmanagment-studio-cannot-find-one-or-more-components-please-reinstall-the-application-after?forum=sqlexpress
However, after following the suggestions on above site too I am not able to resolve the issue. I have tried following options till now:
1. Downloaded installers of both above VS2010 Shell Isolated and Integrated setups. Installed them both, but not working. I noticed that the version of installed product (10.0.3xxxx) is different (and older) from the one which was before (10.0.40219). [I uninstalled
both of them after this.]
2. I deleted the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\SQL Server Management Studio.11.0_Config'
as suggested in above link and restarted SSMS service, but still no luck.
3. I tried to install the VS2010 Shell directly from following path in the SQL Server 2010 setup: "1033_ENU_LP\redist\VisualStudioShell\VSSetup\vs_setup.msi", but it gives me an error asking me to install it by running the setup.exe.
4. I executed the SQL Server 2012 setup again and repaired both the SQL server instances on server, but they too didn't install the required shell components.
5. I executed the SQL Server 2012 setup and added a new SQL instance, hoping that it will install the VS2010 shell components. The setup window was showing that prerequisite VS2010 shell is to be installed from media, but it was not automatically installed
via the setup when it completed.
I do not want to uninstall the entire SQL server and reinstall it again as there are too many databases created inside existing instances. Is there any other way in which I can download the VS2010 Shell 10.0.40219 from somewhere? If yes, could you provide the link please?
Appreciate any help at all.
Regards,
Vaibhav.