I have created a new package with one component in it (descendant of TSpeedButton), compiled the package and installed it in the IDE (Delphi XE3 Pro).
It worked as far as I have tested it (I could use my component in design- and runtime).
BUT: I have closed the IDE and now I can't start it.
It displays the splashscreen and shows progress:
- Documentation Insight Express
- CodeSite Express
- Jedi Code Library
- Jedi Visual Component Library
Up to All designtime packages loaded
(translated from German, YMMV).
I guessed it was my package, so I deleted the BPL. On next start, Delphi said it could find the package and asked if it should load it when loading the next project; I clicked "No".
But still Delphi doesn't start, behaviour is exactly the same. Splashscreen loading and STOP.
The "Repair" option of the installer didn't help, either.
Pharaoh
Edit: It turns out I was too impatient - A reboot cleaned it up.
I still marked the answer of Ken White because it would have been the solution of the last resort.