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I'm a bit of a novice and struggling to install SSMS on my PC. I have recently had to reinstall Windows 10 and now cannot get SSMS to install.

I have downloaded the latest version of SSMS from microsoft.com and when I double-click to install (even with 'run as administrator'), nothing happens. I have a really important personal database in SQL Server which I cannot lose. Can anyone help?

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  • Did you check event viewer – Dave Apr 13 '20 at 18:24
  • Thanks Dave - hadn't thought of that. Showing - Application: SSMS-Setup-ENU.18.5.exe Framework Version: v4.0.30319 Description: The process was terminated due to an internal error in the .NET Runtime at IP 63A21152 (63970000) with exit code 80131506. - Any ideas? – bertygerty99 Apr 13 '20 at 18:58
  • Does it work with a different version of ssms? – Dave Apr 13 '20 at 20:25
  • Nope. Tried version 17.9. – bertygerty99 Apr 14 '20 at 08:50
  • Interestingly Visual Studio 2019 does the same error - I see the splash screen and then after about 5-6 seconds it has crashed. The same error is in Event Viewer – bertygerty99 Apr 14 '20 at 09:02
  • This appears to be a long-standing problem. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/52375069 - but I haven't yet found out what .NET version 18.5 needs. I'll post back if I find out. – Ian Goldby Apr 17 '20 at 08:22
  • Not resolved by installing .NET 4.7.2 or 4.8.0... – Ian Goldby Apr 17 '20 at 08:33
  • Cheers Ian - managed to get in touch with Microsoft and it was a fault on the .net 4.8 framework and I was given some tools to rebuild it. VS 2019 now working but SSMS18.5 now has a side-by-side error. – bertygerty99 Apr 18 '20 at 14:39
  • All is now sorted - I had to run %windir%\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319\ngen.exe update /force to regenerate the .NET image. That made VS2019 work and then I had to uninstall SSMS18.5, remove all directories and a registry key, reboot and reinstall SSMS and that is now working fine too. Thanks everyone for their help – bertygerty99 Apr 19 '20 at 16:46

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