Today I wanted to open Sql Server Management Studio 18 like every day. But this time an error message popped up:

Cannot find one or more components. Please reinstall the application.

And I reinstalled the application and even reinstalled the Microsoft visual studio 2015 Shell. What also confuses me is the fact that the shell 2017 of visual studio does not even exist yet. I'm working on a windows 11 machine.

CodePudding user response：

Its a reported issued on Windows 11 22H2 (22621). See https://feedback.azure.com/d365community/idea/6b7d06dc-9bec-ec11-a81b-6045bd7ac9f9

CodePudding user response：

After I uninstalled all Microsoft related Softwares in the control panel and reinstalled all again the SSMS started working. I just found out that you can also use Azure Data Studio as an alternative for SSMS, which is also sometimes preinstalled on windows machines.