The 'Provider Package' did not load correctly

Question

VS 2013 Professional - Version 12.0.31101.00 Update 4

All of a sudden, whenever I try to open a project (MVC project or Python project), I get:

Answer 1

Deleting ComponentModelCache from

C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ComponentModelCache

works fine for VS 2015.

Note: You will need to close the VS before deleting this folder. Also replace 14.0 with 12.0 in folder path for VS 2013

Answer 2

Delete folder ComponenModelCache

C:\Users\XXXX\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\XX\ComponentModelCache

that worked for me

Answer 3

Make sure the paths are correct at: Computer\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0

Mine for example the VisualStudioLocation key changed from "C:\Documents\Visual Studio 2015" to just "Visual Studio 2015" which was problematic.

Answer 4

I also faced the same problem and solution for me was to run Visual Studio as an administrator.

Answer 5

I can't leave a comment on Murat Yıldız's answer so this is the next best thing. His solutions works great. I opened the Visual Studio Command Prompt as an administrator and ran from the command prompt:

C:\WINDOWS\system32>devenv /resetskippkgs

It worked like a charm.

Answer 6

Open Command Prompt and use the following commands (if necessary, change the directory according to the installation folder):

cd c:\

C:\>"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE\devenv.exe" /resetskippkgs"

Hope this helps...