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I downloaded the AWS Tookkit for .NET a couple weeks ago and it was working fine.

http://aws.amazon.com/visualstudio/

For the last couple of days, I have not been able to open it in either Visual Studio 2010 or Visual Studio 2012.

I have already uninstalled it, rebooted, and re-installed (multiple times)

I can choose it from the View menu, but when I select it, nothing happens.

I'm just looking for some direction to see what I can do to resolve this.

jabroni
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  • My first thoughts are what has changed? Have you had a Windows update? Have you installed anything in Visual Studio? Are there any errors being logged in Event Viewer. I'm assuming you're using a Windows OS. – Daniel Hollinrake Jan 10 '13 at 13:36
  • Nothing has changed. A co-worker of mine has the same build and service pack level and his is working. – jabroni Jan 10 '13 at 13:42
  • Is there anything in Event Viewer / Event logs that may give you any clues? NB: I haven't used the AWS toolkit but I've got Visual Studio 2010 on my machine so if we don't find anything in your Event Viewer then I'll download it and see what I can learn for you. – Daniel Hollinrake Jan 10 '13 at 15:32
  • If your co-worker's project is in source control then what happens when you check out his project? – Daniel Hollinrake Jan 10 '13 at 15:41
  • The AWS kit would work independent of the solution. If I just launch and instance of Visual Studio, I should be able to bring up the AWS Toolkit. I will check the even viewer to see if it is throwing an issue. – jabroni Jan 10 '13 at 16:15
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    The toolkit writes logs files to the directory C:\Users\\AppData\Local\AWSToolkit\logs\vs2010. My advice is to shutdown all instances of visual studio, clear this folder than restart visual studio and then select View->AWS Explorer. After that check the log file to see if any errors help explain the issue. – Norm Johanson Jan 10 '13 at 22:02
  • Quite odd, I cannot find a folder at that path. I'm going to continue looking. – jabroni Jan 14 '13 at 21:57

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I figured it out. I had to uninstall the Toolkit, then go to the profile on the PC and delete the whole AWSToolkit folder, finally I re-installed it. It allowed me to bring it back up and and browse everything.

Specifically, you want to delete the folder found at: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\AWSToolkit

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