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Resolve the Visual Studio 2012 issue after updating or installing Visual Studio 2013

Sunday, November 17, 2013

If you have already installed VS2012 and at a later Update to new a Service Pack or Installing VS2013, when you load any project, you may 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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To resolve the issue you may  follow the following steps:
  1. Close All of the instance of Visual Studio.
  2. Open a Developer Command Propmpt for VS 2012 (as administrator).
  3. Type devenv/setup.
  4. Restart Visual Studio.

Please send me your feedback about the process. I have already tried this one and it worked for me... :)

5 comments

  1. I'm afflicted with this right now as well, Unfortunately the devenv/setup didn't do anything for me, I'm still getting the error. Any other ideas? What path is it looking for?

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  4. I find the instructions for fixing the "ProviderPackage" not loading correctly in Visual Studio to be quite clear and helpful, and I have tried them successfully. ^^ Using the Developer Command Prompt to execute the devenv /setup command is a smart solution because it can restore Visual Studio's original settings without affecting existing projects. This approach helps minimize the risk of data loss and saves time in manually troubleshooting and fixing the issue.
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