Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.PackageFailureException: Package 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Debugger.Wcf.Msi' failed to install

[Bert Degenhart Drenth]

I switched from Visual Studio Community edition to the Professional version recently.

Unfortunately the installation gives me a warning that the Debugger.Wcf.Msi fails to install.
In itself this does not seem too bad, but.... it also prevents the installation of extensions and extension updates, for instance the Visual Studio Live Share extension or the Nano framework...

Here is the stack trace from the log:

14-4-2020 09:42:22 - Install Error : System.AggregateException: One or more errors occurred. ---> Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.PackageFailureException: Package 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Debugger.Wcf.Msi' failed to install
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.InstallOperation.Run(CancellationToken token)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Engine.RunOperation(InstallOperation installOperation, CancellationToken token, ExecuteAction action, ITelemetryOperation telemetryOperation)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Engine.RunCoreOperation(InstallOperation coreOperation, ExecuteAction action, ITelemetryOperation telemetryOperation, CancellationToken token)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Engine.Install(Product product, String destination, CancellationToken token)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.SetupEngineService.<Install>b__14_0()
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task`1.InnerInvoke()
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute()
--- End of inner exception stack trace ---
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.ThrowIfExceptional(Boolean includeTaskCanceledExceptions)
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Wait(Int32 millisecondsTimeout, CancellationToken cancellationToken)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.SetupEngineService.Install()
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.ExtensionEngineImpl.PerformSetupEngineInstall(InstallableExtensionImpl extension, Boolean installPerMachine, Boolean isPackComponent, IDictionary`2 extensionsInstalledSoFar, List`1 extensionsUninstalledSoFar, IInstalledExtensionList modifiedInstalledExtensionsList, IProgress`1 progress, InstallFlags installFlags, AsyncOperation asyncOp, Version targetedVsVersion, IInstalledExtension& newExtension)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.ExtensionEngineImpl.InstallInternal(InstallableExtensionImpl extension, InstallFlags installFlags, IDictionary`2 extensionsInstalledSoFar, List`1 extensionsUninstalledSoFar, IInstalledExtensionList modifiedInstalledExtensionsList, AsyncOperation asyncOp, IProgress`1 progress, Version targetedVsVersion)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.ExtensionEngineImpl.BeginInstall(IInstallableExtension installableExtension, InstallFlags installFlags, AsyncOperation asyncOp, Version targetedVsVersion)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.ExtensionEngineImpl.InstallWorker(IInstallableExtension extension, InstallFlags installFlags, AsyncOperation asyncOp)
---> (Inner Exception #0) Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.PackageFailureException: Package 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Debugger.Wcf.Msi' failed to install
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.InstallOperation.Run(CancellationToken token)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Engine.RunOperation(InstallOperation installOperation, CancellationToken token, ExecuteAction action, ITelemetryOperation telemetryOperation)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Engine.RunCoreOperation(InstallOperation coreOperation, ExecuteAction action, ITelemetryOperation telemetryOperation, CancellationToken token)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Engine.Install(Product product, String destination, CancellationToken token)
at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ExtensionManager.SetupEngineService.<Install>b__14_0()
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task`1.InnerInvoke()
at System.Threading.Tasks.Task.Execute()<---

This did not happen with the community edition.

Anyone a clue ?

(Repair did not help, just to be sure I did a chkdsk on C:, no relief either)

Bert

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