SSIS Script Editor throws an exception

Question

I have SQL Server 2012, SSIS, SSDT and Visual Studio 2010. I can create a new SSIS package and add a Script Task, but if I attempt to open the Script Editor for that Script Task I get the following error:

TITLE: Microsoft Visual Studio
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Cannot show Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Applications editor.

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Tools.Applications.Core, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. (mscorlib)

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BUTTONS:

OK
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From my own investigation into this error, I found that Visual Studio Tools for Applications appears to be a part of MS Office 2007 and higher. This seemed like an odd dependency for to have, but I installed MS Office 2010 just for grins. It didn't change anything. What else should I try?

Answer 1

This worked for me without doing any kind uninstall.

My environment: Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0 (2008)

Solution:

1. Go to cd "C:\program files (x86)\microsoft visual studio 9.0\common7\ide\"

2. Execute command vsta.exe /setup /hostid SSIS_ScriptTask. This will open VSTA with blank project. Let it open and then close it.

3. Execute command vsta.exe /setup /hostid SSIS_ScriptComponent. This will open VSTA with blank project. Let it open and then close it.

4. Open your solution/packages that contains the script task.

5. Click Edit button in Script task and it should open now. Just in case if it dont, I would suggest to keep the blank vsta of step 2 & 3 open and then click the Edit button in script task.

Took almost two hours and thankfully it worked for me. I did not have admin right to perform all that nasty uninstall and registry edit solutions.

Hope it helps someone!!!

Reference : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jason_howell/archive/2010/08/18/vsta-setup-and-configuration-troubles-for-ssis-2008-and-r2-installations.aspx

Answer 2

Cannot show Visual Studio 2010 Tools for Applications editor.

Just follow the below solution:

1. Go to SQL Server Setup folder.
2. Inside that folder "redist".
3. Under that one more folder "VSTA".
4. Under VSTA folder "X86" and "X64"
5. Install the VSTA_RT30.
6. It works fine.

Answer 3

For me the solution was:

• close bids (I'm on 2008r2)
• reopen
• edit the script (it allowed me to edit it once after restarting bids)
• delete all breakpoints
• make a trivial change, such as adding a blank line
• save

That solved it for me.

Answer 4

I figured out my problem this morning. When I uninstalled SQL Server 2012 (and the remnants of 2008 left behind when I upgraded last month) I also uninstalled 3 packages that were actually part of Visual Studio 2010. Had I not done this, a reinstallation of SQL Server 2012 would probably have done the trick, but instead I found new errors. When I reinstalled these 3 packages from the Visual Studio 2010 distribution media, everything started working.

The 3 packages in question were:

• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Data-tier Application Project
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Data-tier Application Framework
• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Transact-SQL Language Service

Answer 5

You will also get this error, if you are trying to debug a script task in VS 2010 and Run64BitRuntime is set to true. In order to debug, set it to false.

Answer 6

I was getting this error and nothing I came across corrected the problem until I logged off as my normal user and logged in as my local admin user. Once I logged in as an admin I could edit the script in my package. Once I logged back in as my regular user the edit script button worked for it too.

I assume it needed to register the assembly on the first launch and couldn't with my regular domain user.