Visual Studio 2017: Package Manager Console gives error “The type initializer for ‘System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.InitialSessionState’ threw an exception”

~ Ajit Patra

Recently, while working on Visual Studio 2017, when we wanted to launch Package Manager Console from Quick Launch Window, we got the below error message “The type initializer for ‘System.Management.Automation.Runspaces.InitialSessionState’ threw an exception”.

To fix this issue, we installed PowerShell Tools for Visual Studio 2017 from here and restarted Visual Studio. After doing this, we were able to launch the Package Manager Console window.

Hope it helps !!

Advertisement

Published by Ajit Patra

Leave a Reply

Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:

Gravatar
WordPress.com Logo

You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Twitter picture

You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Facebook photo

You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out /  Change )

Cancel

Connecting to %s

This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed.