Visual studio for mac fails to install extensions mscorlib.dll in manifest could not be found

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Let's save some wear and tear on your keyboard and, most importantly, your forehead. This type of situation generally leads to slamming your forehead on your keyboard several times and wondering why you didn't take up your childhood urge to be a Doctor - you could be golfing right now! It is quite obvious the file is exactly where you told regsvr32.exe it is, so why is Windows suddenly blind? Here is the seemingly insane output you may be seeing: The specified module could not be found.” Has your machine gone insane? The file is plainly there in the System32 folder.

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Make sure the binary is stored at the specified path or debug it to check for problems with the binary or dependent. To your horror you receive the error “RegSvr32 The module some.dll failed to load. You copy your traditional set of DLLs to the System32 folder and execute regsrv32.exe against them.

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So you are preparing your first Windows 64-bit image or just dutifully customizing your own machine.