Windows Azure project errors The CctSharedPackage did not load correctly

Question

I opened a solution file that was working fine and got this mysterious error

The 'CctSharedPackage' did not load correctly

This project was a Windows Azure 2.1 project that had no issues working last week, however between then and a reboot it would not successfully load in Visual Studio 2012 any longer. This occurred on a machine that does have Windows Azure SDK 2.1 installed (the project did work fine last week)

The error stated to check the c:\Users\{user}\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\ActivityLog.xml file for more information.

In this file it stated "Could not find assembly Microsoft.Azure.Diagnostics ver 2.1".

Answer 1

Seeing as Windows Azure SDK 2.1 was already installed, i redownloaded the installer and went to run it to ask it to reinstall or repair the installation. Seeing as the install is the Web Platform Installer, it provided none of those options. At this point I decided that I must uninstall the SDK to be able to reinstall it from Add/Remove Programs.

When I went to Add/Remove Programs I saw that there were installations there for Windows Azure Libraries for .NET - v1.8 and Windows Azure Authoring Tools - v1.8. I removed both of these installations and then the project was able to load successfully.