Hi folks!
Windows 7, x64
I upgraded to XE 2016 from XE 2015 on VS2010 yesterday evening, and I've been chasing horrifying behavior all night. According to the installer, I first needed to download and install the Windows 8.1 SDK in order to support VS2013, so I did that, installing the entire suite of tools, and received no errors. I then restarted the XE2016 installer, and got no error messages. Immediately after installing, I tried to run the IDE, and immediately got an exception message. Reinstalling via the "repair" and "modify" selections didn't help. Rebooting, then reinstalling didn't help. Rebooting, then removing all older versions of the compiler and IDE, then rebooting again, then reinstalling from scratch, then "repairing," seems to have gotten me to a point where the VS2013 IDE starts up, but fails to load a number of packages -- 'UserNotifications' and 'Global Search Package' -- and then crashes.
I've even removed a number of other development tools in order to shrink the length of the PATH environment variable, but, since the Intel paths occur earliest, I'm not even sure that's the problem. I'm goofing around with repairing the Window 8.1 SDK installation, but I figured I'd at least ask for help while I continue to experiment.
Has anybody else seen this sort of behavior?
Thanks,
Elias Sabbagh