How to figure out .net ide exception that, when Open visual Studio 2015 throwing error System.Exception of type 'system.Exception' was thrown. At Microsoft.Visual studio.shell.interop.IVshell5.LoadpackagewithContext?
The problem due to failed installation of some packages. You can try to remove the existing VS 2015 as below and reinstall. Go to Control Panel—Programs and Features, if there has 'Microsoft Visual Studio 2015', right click it and choose 'Uninstall' Try to delete the following installed folders: (you can back up those folders before any modification, in case we need to roll back) Go to the folder: %ProgramData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio and delete the 'Packages' folder and 'Setup' folder if there has. Go to the Visual Studio installation folder (normally under %ProgramFiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio) and delete the folder '2015'