VS 2013 giving The operation could not be completed. Invalid pointer on Razor views

Question

I installed VS 2015 version on my system. I already had Visual studio 2013 update 4 installed on my machine. But now, whenever I try to open any cshtml ( razor view) in VS 2013,

Answer 1

I managed to get rid of this error by a combination of the answers here plus some more:

1. Close Visual Studio
2. Delete %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ComponentModelCache
3. Delete the .suo file
4. Re-open Visual Studio - the same error
5. Edit the .csproj file - >go to the ProjectExtensions/VisualStudio/FlavorProperties, delete the entire FlavorProperties element.
6. Reload the project

Answer 2

Installing Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 fixed this for me:

• https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/vs2015-update1-vs.aspx