How to fix visual studio error “cannot find one or more components .Please re-install the application” in windows 8.1?

Question

As Alex suggests find devenv.exe and run it . when search for devenv.exe then I found it\'s there . When I run this file getting error \"cannot

Answer 1

This is probably specific to people working with Isolated Shell applications based on VS 2015, but I found that two registry values were sometimes getting set with incorrect values, leading to this error on startup. Simply delete them from the registry and start again:

HKCU\Software\Company\TheApp\1.0_Config\Initialization\PkgDefSearchPath
HKCU\Software\Company\TheApp\1.0_Config\Initialization\RelativeRootFolderPath

For Visual Studio 2015, replace Company\TheApp\1.0_Config with Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0_Config.