Resolve the Visual Studio 2012 issue after updating or installing Visual Studio 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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To resolve the issue you may  follow the following steps:

  1. Close All of the instance of Visual Studio.
  2. Open a Developer Command Prompt 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… 🙂

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