How to fix '“CheckAttributes” task could not be loaded'-error after installing Visual Studio 2013 Update 4

Question

After installing Update 4, I now find myself unable to build (or even clean) any solution. I keep getting:

Error 1 The \"CheckPathAttributes\" task coul

Answer 1

If you have VS 2012 installed on your machine. Copy Microsoft.Web.Publishing.Tasks.dll and Microsoft.Web.Publishing.targets from C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v11.0\web\ into C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft\VisualStudio\v12.0\Web (the path for VS 2013). Restart visual studio.