I have a quite a few addins installed on my Visual Studio 2012 and I am unhappy at the speed of the application now. I also have some other strange issues that I think are caused by 1 addin but I do not know which one.
I know Visual Studio has the add-in manager but that is not showing all addins that are loaded and running!
For example I have removed all check boxes but I am still getting addons loaded like Dev Express.
Is there any tools that let me see and remove addons - maybe a 3rd party tool someone has written?
If I run Visual Studio by appending /safemode no addons are loaded, visual studio is quick. So how do I get myself back there without an OS Reinstall?
How do I reset visual studio to the default state with no addons installed?
Or is there a known list of locations I can look at for installed addons?
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I have a Visual Studio project that I created in my previous PC (32-bit if that makes any difference). I recently got a new PC (64-bit) and I am trying to open the project and I am seeing the following error:
Unsupported
This version of Visual Studio does not have the following project types installed or does not support them. You can still open these projects in the version of Visual Studio in which they were originally created.
- ONew, "C:\temp\onb\ONewSln\ONew\ONew.csproj"
No changes required
These projects can be opened in this version of Visual Studio without changing them. They will continue to open in Visual Studio 2010 SP1 and in this version of Visual Studio.
- ONewWeb, "C:\temp\onb\ONewSln\ONewWeb\ONewWeb.csproj"
- ONewSln, "C:\temp\onb\ONewSln\ONewSln.sln"
Screenshot:
Is there a add-on or visual studio component that I have to download to make it work?
Please help me resolve the issue.
After doing some research and spending hours banging my head against the wall, I figured out how to resolve the issue.
You have to install Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012.
Open up the Web Platform Installer and if you don’t have it installed, download and install it. Search for Office Developer Tools and install it.
This will enable you to open the project without any issue.
Usually you can open VS2010 SP1 files in VS2012. But after opening and on compiling you may get some errors of missing packages. Then you have to install the missing packages. Check this out: Visual Studio 2012 compatibilty.
Some solutions, projects, files, and other assets that you created in Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1) will run without modification in Visual Studio 2012, but others have to be upgraded. The above document describes how various kinds of assets behave in these two versions of Visual Studio.
If you use both Visual Studio 2012 and Visual Studio 2010 SP1, you can create and modify projects and files in either version as long as you don't add features that require Visual Studio 2012.
VS2012 may convert projects when you first open them, but the changes are (except noted in the document linked) backward compatible with VS2010.
Visual studio 2012 crashes when I try to edit .hlsl or .fx files, even after I disabled all of my extensions. I also uninstalled Parallel NSight and NShader but the syntax highlighting still shows up for these file types (and seems to be the cause of the problem). Renaming my shader file to have a different extension doesn't cause any problems. Is there a way to manually remove custom syntax highlighting rules?
UPDATE:
Resetting the user data solved my problem.
devenv.exe /ResetUserData - Removes all user settings and makes you set them again. This will get you the initial prompt for settings again, clear your recent project history, etc.
How do I truly reset every setting in Visual Studio 2012?
Make sure you have all updates/service packs installed. I don't know if there were any VS 2012 service packs, I use VS 2008 SP1 which is last really stable version known to me.
Rename or move temporarily your Visual Studio 2012 folder which is located in "Documents". Visual Studio will create new one.
Open VS and see if it helped. If not - problem is elsewhere, so rename/move your Visual Studio 2012 folder back and go to step 3.
Backup your Visual Studio settings (Tools -> Import and export settings -> Export...) and then reset them to default (Tools -> Import and export settings -> Reset...).
Open VS and try again. If settings reset didn't helped - restore your settings from backup. If it helped - you can import settings by categories and see which one is messed up.
Reinstall Visual Studio, something must be messed up in Program Files.
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.
My copy of Visual Studio 2012 is instable. It starts up and I can load projects, compile and run them. But from time to time it crashes randomly. It now also crashes when I try to add a new windows form to a project. But the crashes are independent from the project loaded.
My first idea was to install all new updates but if I go to the updates & extensions section it opens the dialog box and crashes 1 second afterwards. I then thought I might deinstall it and reinstall VS 2012 or 2013. But I also cannot deinstall it. If I go to windows programs to deinstall it I can click on the change button, but after this the installation program crashes. I also tried to download the VS 2013 preview and install it but this also crashes before showing a dialog box of window.
So I don't know how to proceed. Does anybody else have similar problems?
Try running Visual Studio in Safemode (devenv /safemode) or run it with logging turned on (devenv /log) the logs will be written to a folder in your user profile. Also check the Eventlog to see whether there's a error report. There should be 2 events logged when Visual Studio crashes. One "Application Error" and one ".NET Runtime Error". The latter will provide information about the stack trace that causes the crash:
When you try to uninstall Visual Studio, first remove update 1, 2 or 3, then repair or remove the whole thing. If uninstall fails, i'm afraid you'll need repave the machine to get it back in a supportable state. When you uninstall an update, you always need to repair Visual Studio itself before re-applying the updates.
Try removing all addins (Resharper, NDepend, etc) and extensions (either from the Visual Studio Updates and Extensions window or by deleting them from the Visual Studio or User profile folder).
Try resetting settings and add-in settings (devenv /ResetSettings) and (devenv /ResetSkipPkgs), try rebuilding all templates (devenv /setup).
You can even attach one Visual Studio instance as a debugger for the other to see where the exception occurs. Sometimes it can give you valuable information, sometimes the crash just doesn't happen because the actual issue is timing related.
If all else fails, open a support call with Microsoft, file a bug on Connect or do a clean re-install of your system.
Judging from you Error message you're running the Visual Studio 2012 Web Developer Express edition, instead of devenv, try wdexpress from a normal (windows) commandline window.
Another common issue that can make Visual Studio very unstable, is a corruption of the Add-in cache. Clearing it will trigger Visual Studio to rebuild it for you.
I'm using Visual Studio 2012, update 1 on a Windows 8 machine. When I try to start a new win32 project using the application wizard something weird appens:
the windows that welcomes to the wizard has three empty bullets under "these are the current project settings". Both the cancel and the finish button do not work.
The folder for the application is created but no files inside.
please help!!
I solved my problem forcing a "clean" install of VS2012. ('clean' means that also the shared packages were uninstalled). Presuming that the installer I used to install VS2012 was on d:
D:\vs_premium.exe /uninstall /force
Once reinstalled, the problem was gone.
I am running Visual Studio Express 2012 for WP on Macbook via Parallels.
I did the update of VS today and could not load my project (HTML App, #C) nor create new projects afterwards.
The solution was to go to Windows program uninstall for Visual Studio Express 2012, BUT choose option "Repair". It took about the same time as the update but I was able to create new projects afterwards (my existing own app project from November 2012 also works).
Before I "repaired" the installation, I have removed manually from VS->Tools->Extensions and Updates a few packages added "Nu Get Package Manager and Packager". I am not sure if the latter is really needed.
Additional info: My VS 2012 Express for Windows8 installation worked and works w/o issues.