exception has been thrown by a target of invocation in Visual Studio 2013

Question

Today when I opened Visual Studio 2013 Professional Edition, I got the error exception has been thrown by a target of invocation.

Also I tried to open ILSpy to debug a dll, but it crashed. I think that it might be from the same killer. For the system I did was I installed SQL Server 2012 Professional Edition yesterday.

I checked the environment path. It is:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\iCLS Client\;C:\Program Files\Intel\iCLS Client\;c:\Program Files (x86)\AMD APP\bin\x86_64;c:\Program Files (x86)\AMD APP\bin\x86;%SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot%\System32\Wbem;c:\Program Files (x86)\ATI Technologies\ATI.ACE\Core-Static;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\DAL;C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Management Engine Components\IPT;C:\Program Files\Dell\Dell Data Protection\Access\Advanced\Wave\Gemalto\Access Client\v5\;C:\Program Files (x86)\NTRU Cryptosystems\NTRU TCG Software Stack\bin\;C:\Program Files\NTRU Cryptosystems\NTRU TCG Software Stack\bin\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Live\Shared;c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\;c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\;c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\VSShell\Common7\IDE\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\100\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft\Web Platform Installer\;c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft ASP.NET\ASP.NET Web Pages\v1.0\;%systemroot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\source\Orion\trunk\packages\NuGet.CommandLine.2.2.0\tools;%TFSPowerToolDir%;%BPADir%;%HummPATH14%;%systemroot%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\Windows Performance Toolkit\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\DTS\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\110\Tools\Binn\ManagementStudio\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\110\DTS\Binn\

My OS is Windows 7 64 bit.

The activitylog.xml has:

 <entry>
    <record>25</record>
    <time>2014/05/13 15:06:11.756</time>
    <type>Information</type>
    <source>VisualStudio</source>
    <description>Begin package load [Environment Package Window Management]</description>
    <guid>{5E56B3DB-7964-4588-8D49-D3523AB7BDB9}</guid>
</entry>
<entry>
    <record>26</record>
    <time>2014/05/13 15:06:11.756</time>
    <type>Error</type>
    <source>VisualStudio</source>
    <description>SetSite failed for package [Environment Package Window Management]</description>
    <guid>{5E56B3DB-7964-4588-8D49-D3523AB7BDB9}</guid>
    <hr>80131534</hr>
    <errorinfo>The type initializer for 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Platform.WindowManagement.WindowManagerService' threw an exception.</errorinfo>
</entry>

Answer 1

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My environment was too long environment variable PATH, after shorten bellow 2048 characters the problem was solved.