I cannot create a Cloud Project after installing Azure SDK 2.0 - azure

I installed the new Azure SDK from the Web Platform Installer.
Now when I try File > New Project > Cloud > Windows Azure Cloud Service > OK
Then I get this error message:
Error: this template attempted to load component assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.CloudService.Wizard, Version=1.0.0.0 ...
I have tried everything I can think of including uninstall of the 1.8 SDK, uninstall of the 2.0 SDK and reninstall. Always I get this message. I cannot see anything about this on the internet. My install gave no error messages.
Also noticed that now in Server Explorer I only have Data Connections, Servers, Windows Azure Service Bus and WIndows Azure Web Sites. There's nothing for storage.
Does anyone have any ideas what may be wrong.

I've had the same problem with skd 2.0
Even trying repairing or installing missing features won't work.
After hours spent on repairing and reinstalling, the only solution I found was to uninstall BOTH Visual Studio and Azure sdk, and installing them again.
After the reinstallation it works fine, but I still have no clue why :P

I keep a development VM for each SDK that comes out. When I upgrade older projects to newer SDKs there are bugs, sometimes bugs without workarounds. I've learned the hard way that installing a new SDK is dangerous.
If you can, develop inside a VM and take occasional snapshots. Otherwise, you do end up reinstalling Visual Studio and installing the original SDK that you first created you project with. -Richard

I've seen this issue on multiple machines after upgrading to 2.7, 2.8, and/or 2.9. Reinstalling VS, VS Updates, and/or SDKs would sometimes help, but sometimes not. The last time no combination of installs worked.
I finally ran Visual Studio with logging enabled via Devenv /log, and according to the %AppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\{version#}\ActivityLog.xml file, there was an error merging the configuration file located at %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\{version#}\devenv.exe.config I deleted that config file and restarted Visual Studio and the problem went away.

Uninstall Visual Studio using VisualStudioUninstaller did the trick for me.
Then I did a clean install of Visual Studio and Azure SDK, and everything worked just fine!

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Azure Project Error - Output Type in Project Settings

I am working on Azure application. After I have updated my Visual Studio 2017 to the latest release, the Azure Function Apps started throwing error while running. Following is the error I am facing -
A project with an Output type of Class Library cannot be started directly.
Earlier, the application was running fine. I have tried uninstalling the VS2017 but still no luck. Has anybody faced similar issue? Please note, this is running perfectly on my colleague's machine, not sure why I am facing this error.
The real answer is in a comment by brettsam, so I'll restate it here because I almost missed it:
You don't need to downgrade. You need Azure Functions and Web Jobs installed.
You can get it through the Visual Studio Installer under the "ASP.NET and web development" package. I think it should be under "Cloud tools for web development" but I went ahead and installed both the "ASP.NET and web development" and the "Azure development" packages.
I fixed the above issue by downgrading the version of Microsoft.Net.Sdk.Functions to 1.0.8. Earlier, it was 1.0.9, when I downgraded, it started working fine.

TFS Build stopped running web deploy after .NET core install

I have had webdeploy running for YEARS on a Windows Server 2012 machine with standard MSBuild arguments (like this).
Yesterday I installed the Windows (Server Hosting) version of the .NET Core Installer from the .NET Core downloads page.
Since then my build tasks are running and successfully building my website, but not actually running any web deploy publishing. It is not failing - it is just not being run.
I want to stress I am talking about a 'legacy' .NET application - not a .NET Core application. I just installed .NET Core for somebody else.
I can verify this with the following observations:
There are no errors in any event viewers (except ones that are months old)
There is no message in the msbuild logfile that says Start Web Deploy Publish, however log files from just a couple days ago do have this message.
I can connect to the local server at port 8172 and it makes a connection.
It is happening with multiple projects that nobody else has access to.
_PublishedWebsites does get created with the latest files - it just never gets deployed anywhere.
What could possibly have broken this? Did the Windows Server Hosting package break it - or was it just some other update that came in? I've run out of ideas how to fix it and don't want to revert to xcopy!
Managed to fix it :-) Not sure exactly which of these steps did it, but I suspect it was Visual studio.
I was using TFS Express 2015 and upgraded to Update 3.
I also installed Visual Studio 2015 on the server itself.
I had previously had .NET Core RC2 (or whatever they called it at the time) installed and I uninstalled that before installing .NET Core RTM. Wondering if that removed some component that was required.
Like I said everything was working fine before I installed the .NET Core RTM - but fortunately installing VS and TFS brought everything back to normal.

Failed to create imageSource from the text '..\Images\Medium.png

I recently migrated windows 8.1. But unable to open vs2013/vs2012 new Project template.
IT was working fine in windows 8.
ERROR: Failed to create imageSource from the text '..\Images\Medium.png'
Tried all options but did not succeed.
Please HELP
This is because you migrated from windows 8 to windows 8.1
First Go to Control Panel --> Check Updates for Windows 8.1
Install All Important Updates
Restart Your Pc
All things will properly work..
I tried almost every solution I found.
I would like to share, what I have tried and did not work and what did work and solved the problem.
Here are the "solutions" which did not work for me but claimed that they worked for some people.
1) Removing FastPictureViewer Codec Pack (which was already not installed)
2) Having a modify permission to everyone for
c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v2.0.50727\config\machine.config
and
c:\windows\microsoft.net\framework\v4.0.30319\config\machine.config
3) Using Procmon to see broken registries
4) Uninstalling/reinstalling VS13 and all shared packages
5) Renaming the machine.config.default to machine.config
6) Running Visual Studio as an administrator
And this what it solved it:
Simply installed all the updates for windows 8.1 (not only the important ones, also optional updates as well) and restart. It sounds crazy after spending hours and hours but that solved my problem.
Good luck!
I tried all the steps mentioned above and it did not work. Even I was not able to uninstall VS.
I reapaired .NET framework through Contrl Panel->Programs and Features-> Microsoft .Net Framework-> right click Chane/Uninstall Repair .Net Framework.
This solved the problem.
I got same error after Oracle Data Provider for VS 2013 installation. I installed all Windows 8.1 Important Updates but it didn't work. I read somewhere that it can be happened because of lastly installed VS Add-On etc. then uninstalled Oracle Data Provider for VS 2013 and problem solved.
I am using Visual Studio 2012. This problem occurred to me after I upgraded from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1, so it is definitely related to the OS upgrade.
As some answers say, installing updates for Windows 8.1 will resolve the issue. But you don't need to install everything. I installed only the .NET related updates. Specifically, I installed "Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5.2 for Windows 8.1" (KB2934520), and a few others "Security and Quality Rollup" updates as well.
After a reboot, the "Loading Components" dialog shows up briefly upon launching Visual Studio, indicating that the cache of some components are invalidated and they are compiled again. After that, the "Add Reference" dialog works again.

The Windows Azure SDK for .NET must be installed

I'm trying to publish my app to Azure which I have done several times before. For some reason I'm now getting the following error:
The Windows Azure SDK for .Net must be installed to enable publishing
to Windows Azure. LightSwitch will load a web page to begin
installation.
It loads a web page, downloads V11AzurePack_1_8_1.exe which in turn runs the Web Platform Installer 4.6 which in turn installs Windows Azure SDK Tools 1.8.1 for Visual Studio 2012. All of this succeeds. But going back and attempting to Publish results in the same error.
I noticed that there is a Windows Azure SDK for .Net (VS 2012) - 2.2 in the WPI. So I installed that manually, tried to publish, same result.
The SDK is clearly installed:
So why can't I publish to Azure? The only thing that looks like it might be a problem is that I have LightSwtich Azure Publishing 1.1 add-on for Visual Studio 2012 installed and I know there is a newer version of that available. But I can't find a direct download nor can I find a way to uninstall that package or force WPI to suggest an update.
Uninstalling everything Azure related (except the LightSwitch add-on as that seems to be unremovable and un-upgradeable), rebooting, and installing only the latest SDK produces the same problem.
After following a moderator's advice to repair Visual Studio on the forum, I was no longer able to open my project at all. I waited for a response but got none. So I decided to reinstall Visual Studio all together.
I followed this and this in order to remove as much of Visual Studio as possible and then reinstalled. I then installed Update 4 and was again able to open my project.
However, upon trying to publish, the same error was encountered.
I decided to upgrade my project to VS2013. That all seemed to go well. Wnet o Publish to Azure and it claimed that it succeeded. However going to Azure and launching the app's site brought up the previous version.
I deleted my Azure cloud service and started a new project in VS2013. I copied over one of my screens to have something to run. I then tried to publish to Azure. It again told me it succeeded but the site did not exist in the Azure Management portal. However, it did realize that I had created a new self-signed certificate so there was some type of communication there. Just not an actual Publish.
Then I did something really stupid. I uninstalled the Azure SDK and tried to reinstall it thinking that was the problem. Now I'm back to where I was before. An endless loop asking me to install the Azure SDK.
I wiped out all of my Azure services. Did a system restore to a month ago. Reinstalled the Azure SDK. This then allowed me to "Publish".
Not really.
Visual Studio claimed that the Publish Succeeded. The services were created and the certificate uploaded but nothing was deployed. I then did a manual deploy and the Production instance began to be deployed.
Everything seems to be running but I cannot access my app's site. I receive a 403 Forbidden error message. With or without HTTPS required. But this seems to be a different issue so I'm going to open another question on it.
Why these extreme measures were required is beyond me. This continual breaking of LightSwitch to Azure publishing is getting to be absurd though.

Windows store app deployment error

I just downloaded and installed Visual studio on my computer (windows 8.1) to start building windows 8 apps. The problem is when I try to run any application this error message shows up (the application from this error message is called Parcels.comStarter):
Error 1 Error : DEP0700 : Registration of the app failed. Deployment
Register operation on Package
a783768f-d79c-495b-bf64-e59e4297fb42_1.0.0.0_neutral__1mfyfctfxa0tr
from:
(d:\Gebruikers\wardv_000\Downloads\Parcels.comStarter\Parcels.comStarter\Parcels.com\bin\Debug\AppX\AppxManifest.xml)
failed with error 0x8E5E0530. See
http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=235160 for help diagnosing app
deployment issues. (0x80073cf9) Parcels.com
I searched the entire internet but I didn't found a solution. I also did reinstall visual studio and I still have the problem.
Thanks in advance
Open the Services management console (services.msc) and stop the Windows Installer service.
In Windows Explorer, go to C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\AppRepository\ and rename PackageRepository.edb to PackageRepository.edb.backup.
Back in the management console, restart the Windows Installer service.
Now run Visual Studio as an administrator and open your project.
I was having this exact same problem, and the solution for me was to unlink my Windows account from my Microsoft account.
There are a couple of things to try.
Run WSReset (press [Win] then type wsreset)
Delete the metastore and remotemetastore folder here: C:\Users\%userprofile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\SettingSync where %userprofile% is your username. (I suggest just renaming them to metastore.old and remotemetastore.old)
Make sure that there are no staged packages for the app in question.
If you re-deployed an app that was already installed by some other user, then you would get a deployment error. This should wear off if you change the identity in your package.appxmanifest fie.
You should try an OS refresh. You should not lose your apps and settings.
After that re-link your windows account to microsoft account.
If that doesnt work...The problem may be that visual studio is not able to delete the application data in local folder. So when you go in the location C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Packages you will find application data of app installed in your computer, now you need to find your app's application data and delete the folder. The folder name is the same as the package family name which you can see in your solution.
now again open the solution and rebuild and your app will run. (hopefully)
close visual studio and simulator before deleting the folder.
make sure that your account is set as administrator.
I had the same problem with visual studio running under Parallels VM. The solution was to copy the project from a cloud based directory to a local directory.

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