It seems I managed to completely break my Visual Studio 2015 setup by uninstalling Nuget Package Manager. I uninstalled it in order to fix its inability to update anything. Now, when I try to launch VS I get a plethora of error messages, but the most important one seems to be shown on the image below as its showing no matter what fix I attempt:
Here are the steps I took before I started seeing the above error:
- I have renamed the Extensions folder found at the following path:C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE and installed Nuget Package Manager for Visual Studio 2015 from the microsoft website.
- New extensions folder was created and when I tried to run the application with nothing else in it I would get the error message above once on VS launch and once on project load. When I moved old package folders from the old extensions folder I would get a lot more error messages related to the packages.
I also noticed there is an Extensions folder found at %localappdata%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0, but renaming the folder to something else and just having blank folder did not help either. Also, I saw somewhere else a possible fix to an issue I thought was similar by removing contents of the folder located at: %localappdata%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ComponentModelCache, but that didn't help either. Now with all this trying I am getting to a point where fresh install might be an only option.
UPDATE:I guess I managed to overcome this issue by opening up this project in Visual Studio 2017. It worked without any issues, though when I originally cloned the repository from GitHub via Visual Studio 2017 it didn't work. Having said all that, I don't think its an answer I was looking for, but at least I can continue working on this project.