I am developing an ASP.NET MVC project. Now I just installed Visual Studio 2015. before I developing that project using Visual Studio 2013. So now I imported that project into Visual Studio 2015 installed on my new laptop to continue developing. Importing project and developing process all working fine.
But the problem is to configure IIS Express of my project for remote access. I enabled in Visual Studio 2013 on my old laptop successfully following this link - http://johan.driessen.se/posts/Accessing-an-IIS-Express-site-from-a-remote-computer. For VS 2013, the IIS config file is under D:\Users[YourName]\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config. So now I need to configure it for VS 2015. As the link mentioned, the config file must be in /{project folder}/.vs/config/applicationhost.config. I searched for that file in my project, I cannot find it.
You can see my project structure below.
So I searched for config settings in D:\Users[YourName]\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config because this project was built using VS 2013. But there is no config settings for this project. I already run my project on browser and it is running fine.
The problem is I cannot find binding settings in D:\Users[YourName]\Documents\IISExpress\config\applicationhost.config and cannot find applicationhost.config in project folder for IIS configuration. Where can I find that file? Where can I find IIS config settings for my project in Visual Studio 2015?
.vs/applicationhost.config is not created when I opened the project
with visual studio 2015.
Finally I found the solution. Please have a look how I solved below.
I opened GITIGNORE file as in the below screenshot
Then I added/appended this line
.vs/
to that file and saved.
Then I restart visual studio and opened the project.
So .vs file is auto-created and applicationhost.config file is inside there. Hope this works for you if you have similar issue.
I've recently uninstalled and re-installed some IBM programs on my computer. Now when I go to connect to TFS, I get the errror:
TF205020.... Configuration system failed to initialize.
In the end I removed my server from my server list and now when I add it, I get the same thing (without the number). This leads me to believe that something is messed up in my Visual Studio instance.
I'm using Visual Studio 2012 and connecting to a TFS 2012 server.
I tried deleting config files under C:\Users\ME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\4.0\Configuration\VersionControl, but that didn't help.
Thanks for anyone with an idea.
this usually happens if you have a broken web.config file. Check to make sure your machine.config files for v2.0 and v4.0 does not have any any broken tags.
This has been the case unfortunatly for the past couple of months. I can't install new or update packages from Tools ==> Extensions and Updates I tried everything, yet I am unable to find the reason.
I've tried :
Access NuGet and download packages from "Package Manager Console" Install-Package = SUCCESS
Access repositories using Web browsers, Visual studion internal browser = SUCCESS
Same window in Visual Studio 2010 = SUCCESS
Visual Studio 2012 - Doesn't work
Visual Studio 2010 - Works!
As it turns out for some reason -possibly due to an RC-, My registry settings were pointing to a different url that was getting redirected.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0_Config\ExtensionManager\Repositories
AND I changed
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0_Config\ExtensionManager\Repositories{0f45e408-7995-4375-9485-86b8db553dc9}(Default)
to
http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/Services/v2011/Extension.svc
instead of
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=251029
I changed
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0_Config\ExtensionManager\Repositories{aeb9cb40-d8e6-4615-b52c-27e307f8506c}(Default)
to
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/Services/v2011/sample.svc
instead of
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=251031
Remove the local cache of extensions and download them all again.
The easiest thing to do is to rename
%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Visual Studio version\Extensions\
to
%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\Visual Studio version\Extensions.old\
and run visual studio, it will update recreate the folder.
WeSam Abdallah's hint worked perfectly for me! Just try to open the link provided in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0_Config\ExtensionManager\Repositories{0f45e408-7995-4375-9485-86b8db553dc9}(Default) in your browser and see what it is changed to automatically. For Visual Studio 2013 I had to change the URL from https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=309922 to https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/services/dev12/extension.svc
This answer is an update for Visual Studio 2015.
I tried the registry hack as well as renaming the Extensions folder, and neither solution worked.
However, in my case, the issue seems to have been because I'm behind a proxy at work. This worked for me:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/32650801/2452084
I have visual studio express 2012
and it was working fine earlier I had run my solution once. But now when I do it, there appears a dialog box with the message!
the Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.PasteJson.JsonPackage, Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.PasteJson package did not load correctly.
the problem may have been caused by a configuration changhe or by installation of another extension. You can get more information by exmamining the file
C:\Users\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VWDExpress\11.0\Log.xml
continue to show this error message?
How do I get rid of this error?
I started to see this on the fresh windows & VS 2013 Ultimate with Update 2 installation.
To resolve the problem, close all Visual Studio instances head over to
C:\Users\<your users name>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ComponentModelCache
and delete all the files in the folder.
It worked fine for me. Thanks to this article.
Not relevant to VS 2012 express, but I experienced this problem with VS 2013 Premium. I had recently added the productivity power tools extension. To get back up and running, I loaded Visual Studio in safe mode:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE>devenv /safemode
And un-installed the productivity tools. The errors went away.
You need to clear the ComponentModelCache folder or rename it. For Visual Studio 2013, it’s located in the %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0 folder.
Refrence:
http://www.rajapet.com/2014/02/when-the-editorpackage-does-not-load-correctly.html
I had Visual Studio 2013 Professional and I got the same error. I couldn't remove it until I repaired VS installation. It took a while but now it works fine.
I had this problem as I had an older version of VS2012 Express (release on Web Platform installer dated 15/08/2012).
Try installing 'Visual Studio 2012 Express for Web (Latest)' with release date 22/10/2012 from the Microsoft Web Platform Installer.
That is all I did and I no longer get those messages.
I installed Visual Studio 2012 and at a later date Update 2. After installing Update 2, when I load any project, I get the following error:
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Microsoft Visual Studio
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The 'ProviderPackage' package did not load correctly.
The problem may have been caused by a configuration change or by the installation of another extension. You can get more information by examining the file 'C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\ActivityLog.xml'.
Continue to show this error message?
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Yes No
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After locating the ActivityLog.xml, I see the following set of errors:
<entry>
<record>300</record>
<time>2013/04/23 18:32:54.002</time>
<type>Information</type>
<source>VisualStudio</source>
<description>Begin package load [ProviderPackage]</description>
<guid>{5F2E5E42-4192-4D79-A0D8-1D881E808829}</guid>
</entry>
<entry>
<record>301</record>
<time>2013/04/23 18:32:54.012</time>
<type>Error</type>
<source>VisualStudio</source>
<description>SetSite failed for package [ProviderPackage]</description>
<guid>{5F2E5E42-4192-4D79-A0D8-1D881E808829}</guid>
<hr>80131522</hr>
<errorinfo>Method 'GetHostedIntellisenseTypes' in type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Progression.DTEWrapperCached' from assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.GraphProviderPackage, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' does not have an implementation.</errorinfo>
</entry>
<entry>
<record>302</record>
<time>2013/04/23 18:32:54.012</time>
<type>Error</type>
<source>VisualStudio</source>
<description>End package load [ProviderPackage]</description>
<guid>{5F2E5E42-4192-4D79-A0D8-1D881E808829}</guid>
<hr>80131522</hr>
<errorinfo>Method 'GetHostedIntellisenseTypes' in type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Progression.DTEWrapperCached' from assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.GraphProviderPackage, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' does not have an implementation.</errorinfo>
Google searches do not reveal an exact match on my issue. I've tried searching the packages on the install ISO and cannot locate a package that needs to be repaired...
F:\packages>dir /s *provider*
Volume in drive F is VS2012_ULT_MSDN_ENU
Volume Serial Number is 4A21-C8BD
Directory of F:\packages\SSDT
07/26/2012 11:30 AM 780,288 DbSqlPackageProvider.msi
1 File(s) 780,288 bytes
Total Files Listed:
1 File(s) 780,288 bytes
0 Dir(s) 0 bytes free
Any other ideas?
Close Visual Studio.
Open a Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio 2012 (as administrator).
Type devenv /setup.
Restart Visual Studio.
Possible duplicate of Visual Studio 2012 error: Package 'Visual C++ package' failed to load
See Visual C++ package: failed to load?????
This is Aaron's (Aaron Reed) answer from above, just copied as an answer instead of part of the question:
Fixed it... Fixed it... Fixed it...
Opened Programs and Features (run: appwiz.cpl)
Sorted list of installed apps by: Install Date
Filtered list by adding "SQL" to the upper right search filter
List item
I installed VS2012 on 4/1/13, so I went through each listed SQL item in the list, and right click --> Repair
From there I ran VS2012 and opened the target Solution file without issue.
My list:
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data-Tier App Framework
Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools - enu (11.1.20627.00)
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Management Objects (x64)
Microsoft System CLR Types for SQL Server 2012 (x64)
Microsoft System CLR Types for SQL Server 2012
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Management Objects
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Transact-SQL Compiler Service
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Command Line Utilities
Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools Build Utilities - enu (11.1.206...
Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 SP1 x64 ENU
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Language Service
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Native Client
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data-Tier App Framework
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Transact-SQL SpriptDom
This worked for me -
In order to fix the issue one needs to clear the Visual Studio cache under:
%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\ComponentModelCache
Thanks go to blog post SetSite failed for package [Microsoft.VisualStudio.Editor.Implementation.EditorPackage].
Usually this can be fixed by clearing the Visual Studio cache under:
Visual Studio 2012: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\ComponentModelCache
Visual Studio 2013: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ComponentModelCache
I fixed this by uninstalling or removing:
Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools - enu (14.0.50325.0)
I hope this helps :)
Worked for me.
Window7 SP1 + VS 2013
Open a Developer Command Propmpt for VS 2012 (as administrator).
Run devenv /setup.
An even quicker fix is to simply repair the Microsoft SQL Server in the list. That fixed my problem.
Uninstalling/Repairing SQL Server Data tools is the only thing which worked for me, thanks to wayne.blackmon comment.
Picture below
For me the ActivityLog.xml stated
<errorinfo>Access to the path 'C:\Users\Klas\Documents\Visual Studio
2015\ArchitectureExplorer' is denied.</errorinfo>
When I examined this folder I realized that the entire folder structure here
C:\Users\Klas\Documents\Visual Studio 2015
had permission set so that my user had no write permissions. I added Full Control rights to my user for this folder and everything below.
After that, the message went away. Also, when I started Visual Studio it created lots of subfolders to this folder.
I had the same issue in Visual Studio 2013 for Windows 8.1.
The previous answers didn't work for me. I had to repair Visual Studio and then reboot my machine.
I was getting this error on Visual Studio start up:
the 'visual studio component model host package' did not load correctly...
After that bunch of other The '' package did not load correctly... error messages.
I realized I don't have enough free space on my C drive, where the Visual Studio were installed.
I opened up some space and restarted the Visual Studio, solved the problem.
Not sure if it has anything to do with the free space on disk though.
In my case the problem appeared after I installed Visual Studio 2015. From that point nor 2015, nor previous versions of Visual Studio would load.
The problem was the PATH environment variable exceeding the MAX length.
I shortened it to less than 2048 and restarted the machine. Visual Studio started loading, but with some errors still. Lastly run the devenv /setup, and all is back to normal.
I just had a similar error (on Windows 7. I installed Visual Studio 2015 Professional and then after that, several "...package did not load correctly" messages started showing up when I ran Visual Studio 2012).
What fixed my issue was to repair "Microsoft Studio Tools for Applications 2012".
Run "appwiz.cpl" (Control Panel → Programs → Uninstall a program
Right-click on "Microsoft Studio Tools for Applications 2012. Select "Change", then click "Repair".
After this, I can open up Visual Studio 2012 without those error messages.
I had a similar error. After I updated to VS2012.U2, the problem went away. TFS 2012 update 2 can't be removed without removing TFS. While I had an issue with upgrading from TFS2012.U1 to U2, I have found TFS2012.U2 to be worthwhile.
It was the problem with access rights to my %USERPROFILE% directory (because of the failure with the PC). Setting permissions to full access fixed it.
Another suggestion,
Run as admin, and restart the VS application.
Apply package update.
Reboot.
Hope this helps!
From MSDN forums:
Please open Windows Explorer, and navigate to <Visual Studio Installation Path>\Common7\IDE
Devenv.exe /SafeMode: Launches the IDE in safe mode loading minimal windows.
Devenv.exe /ResetSettings: Restores the IDE's default settings, optionally resets to the specified VSSettings file.
Devenv.exe /ResetAddin: Removes commands and command UI associated with the specified Add-in.
Devenv.exe /ResetSkipPkgs: Clears all SkipLoading tags added to VSPackages.
If still no help, I suggest you try repairing your Visual Studio installation or uninstall it and then reinstall it. If you want to reinstall it, I am afraid that you need a DVD or a fine Internet.
Doing the first three steps works for me.
I got "lucky" and restarted Visual Studio 2013 and it worked. I have had other errors in which deleting the temp cache items cleared it up.
Side note. While Visual Studio 2015 is not perfect as of yet, and NuGet has become less friendly to use IMO, if my computer is restarted by the company domain network administrators OR especially when there is a computer losing power with a brown-out of some loss of power Visual Studio 2013 becomes a bit a "fun" to fix while Visual Studio 2015 projects for months seem to just open just fine as if nothing happened when I login.
In my case, I solve this problem by removing the Read-only attribute of the folder "Visual Studio 2015" in <C:\Users\myuser\Documents>.