Issues with Visual Studio 2013 Update 3

Question

I have just installed VS 2013 Update 3 and now I get errors when opening an solution:

The 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Publish.WebPublishPackage,MircosoftVisualStudio.Web.Publish' 
package did not load correctly. 

And

The 'ScaffoldungVSPackage' package did not load correctly.

In the activity-log is shows following errors:

<entry>
<record>447</record>
<time>2014/08/05 14:27:31.859</time>
<type>Error</type>
<source>VisualStudio</source>
<description>End package load [Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Publish.WebPublishPackage, Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Publish]</description>
<guid>{1AD387FC-B1E8-4023-91FE-F22260B661DB}</guid>
<hr>80131522</hr>
<errorinfo>Could not load type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Internal.Contracts.Publish.IVsWebJobPublishService' from assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Internal.Contracts, Version=2.3.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a'.</errorinfo>
</entry>

<entry>
<record>450</record>
<time>2014/08/05 14:31:20.199</time>
<type>Error</type>
<source>VisualStudio</source>
<description>SetSite failed for package [ScaffoldingVsPackage]</description>
<guid>{FAA496BF-FB16-4671-B3D5-E4B388A18478}</guid>
<hr>80131500</hr>
<errorinfo>Cannot cast the underlying exported value of type 'Microsoft.AspNet.Scaffolding.Templating.ScaffoldingAssemblyDirectiveProcessor (ContractName="Microsoft.AspNet.Scaffolding.IServiceRegistrar")' to type 'Microsoft.AspNet.Scaffolding.IServiceRegistrar'.</errorinfo>
</entry>
<entry>
<record>451</record>
<time>2014/08/05 14:31:20.199</time>
<type>Error</type>
<source>VisualStudio</source>
<description>End package load [ScaffoldingVsPackage]</description>
<guid>{FAA496BF-FB16-4671-B3D5-E4B388A18478}</guid>
<hr>80131500</hr>
<errorinfo>Cannot cast the underlying exported value of type 'Microsoft.AspNet.Scaffolding.Templating.ScaffoldingAssemblyDirectiveProcessor (ContractName="Microsoft.AspNet.Scaffolding.IServiceRegistrar")' to type 'Microsoft.AspNet.Scaffolding.IServiceRegistrar'.</errorinfo>
</entry>

Tried So Far: Has anyone an idea how to resolve this issue? I already tried:

• Reinstalling VS2013

• Reinstalling WindowsAzureSDK V2.4

• Disabling Extensions

Thanks.

Answer 1

I had the same problem. I first tried to repair Update 3 installation for Visual Studio. I'm mentioning it because it may have helped a bit, I'm not sure.

I then opened my Azure solution. Right clicked on the cloud project and selected Properties. In the first tab (Application) there was a message that my solution was using Microsoft Azure Tools version 2.3 and I had the option to change it to version 2.4. After I switched to newer version, I restarted Visual Studio and it didn't show me error message anymore.

One other thing I had to do is to switch the startup project to the Cloud project because after the update it somehow changed to my MVC project.

And one other thing - Windows Azure SDK v2.4 deleted all my storage tables so you'll probably have the same problem..