Problem
I have Intel® Parallel Studio XE Composer Edition 2011 through 2017 installed on this machine.
I uninstalled Intel Compiler 17.0, repaired the 16.0 update 3 installation, and started Visual Studio but there was still no IDE integration. I uninstalled 16.0 update 3, and reinstalled it. Now when I start Visual Studio I get a dialog that states:
"The 'IntelCommonPkg' package did no load correctly."
The ActivityLog contained 3 issues:
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\1033\devenv.CTM was out of date and couldn't be removed.
42 ERROR SetSite failed for package [IntelCommonPkg] {397E715C-BFAE-47AB-8F49-1538DDD77757} 80070002 VisualStudio 2016/09/08 02:56:11.313
43 ERROR End package load [IntelCommonPkg] {397E715C-BFAE-47AB-8F49-1538DDD77757} 80070002 VisualStudio 2016/09/08 02:56:11.314 Root cause
We had issue in some old products like Intel® Composer XE 2011, that can be cause of such issue with IDE. If some of old product was installed previously on machine then we can see this issue with any new version of Intel Parallel Studio XE.
We cannot eliminate this issue in new version of Intel® Parallel Studio XE because fix is required in old version which are end of life now. Currently nothing can be fixed in Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2017 or Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2016, but we provide below workaround.
Workaround
To resolve this situation please do the following steps:
1. Uninstall 16.0 Update 3 product.
2. Manually remove the following files and directories if exists, and backup them to some temporary place:
a) Directory C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Intel.Misc.Utilities
b) Directory "C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Intel\shared files"
c) Directories "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Intel\C++"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Intel\Common"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Intel\PerformanceGuide"
d) Files "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies\IntelCppOptPkg.dll"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies\IntelLibOptPkg.dll"
"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies\IntelPkg.dll"
e) File "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V120\Intel.Build.ICLTasks.v120.dll"
3. Install 16.0 Update 3 product.
The steps above clean the system from all artifacts which caused problem with VS IDE integration.