NORMA won't download

Question

Hello,

for a course I am taking, I need to use Natural ORM Architect which should be available as an extension for visual studio. It was on my computer, then the next time I used my computer, it was gone. I tried to reinstall the extension, but it won't work. It comes back with an error message from Vsix installer "the type initializer for 'PerTypeValue`1' threw an exception." I have unistalled visual studio multiple times and reinstalled it. It refuses to get the extension. I've tried VS 2022, and 2019. I've downloaded the extension from the microsoft website. Nothing will work, I always get the same error and I have no idea how to fix it.

Thank you

Answer 1

Hello @Kristen,

Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.

This extension looks works with VS 2022 (amd64), which means if you are using MAC or ARM machine, you may fail to install it. Please first confirm that you are not using ARM machine.

Then, please try to test and install another extension, check if this issue only appears on specific extension or on all the extensions.

Please also try following:

1. Close Visual Studio 2022, go to C:\Users\{username}\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\17.0_XXXXXXXX folder, back up and remove this 17.0_XXXXXXXX folder.
2. Download NORMA extension from website, run Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio 2022 as administrator. Try to use following command to install that extension: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\resources\app\ServiceHub\Services\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Service\VSIXInstaller.exe C:\path_to_the_downloaded_vsix_file.

Sincerely,

Tianyu

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