Visual Studio 2013 Premium solution load errors after Update 3

Question

I installed VS2013Update 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.

The outcome of this is that I can't open the Publish-Dialog and there are no templates when creating a new Webproject.

In the activitylog are 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>

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

• Reinstalling VS2013
• Reinstallung Update 3
• Reinstalling WindowsAzureSDK V2.4
• Disabling Extensions
• run /devenv setup /devenv updateconfiguration
• Delete Appdatafiles

Thanks!

Answer 1

the following solution from the asp.net-forums worked for me:

the solution was to reset the assemblies for Contract and Publishing using the Developer command prompt as Administrator If you have used the default installation setting then this is probably the path

gacutil -i "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\Web Tools\Publish\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Publish.dll"

gacutil -i "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\Web Tools\Publish\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Internal.Contracts.dll"

here is the link: http://forums.asp.net/p/2000916/5751509.aspx?p=True&t=635430085558824221&pagenum=1

Answer 2

I resolved the issue by downloading the assemblies and restarting VS2013 update 5

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=43709