Well, here’s “my solution”.
First the horrific “prompt of death” (plus the same “licensing issue” annoyance) in this post:
What I’ve attempted (and result) based on info from the interwebs:
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Close VS 2013 and rename the folder:
C:\Users\[your user name]\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ComponentModelCache
Result: No effect/errors persist (VS will re-create that folder on startup)
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Rerun the Visual Studio Update 4 installer and
Repair
Result: Successfully “fixed” whatever it was.
This will take about an hour which is slower than when I originally installed the update so that was a clue, or rather, more like “well, I hope that means it found what it did wrong or forgot/missed out on” (and not, “oh crap, now I’m really screwing things up even more”)
A quick summary of my environment so that hopefully will guide you to your solution:
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I did install
Office Developer Tools Nov 2014
prior to the Update so in my case, that wasn’t the issue (I did not remove/uninstall) -
I have
Resharper
, and I did not disable it, so this too doesn’t seem related (some have pointed this out) -
I did update to
Web Essentials 2013 for Update 4
after the initial Update (it will prompt you to after installing VS Update 4). I didn’t do anything after theRepair
(didn’t remove/re-install/etc Web Essentials after theRepair
). -
I have VS 2012 as well, just mentioning this though that was never affected in any way (and was my fallback while this issue was stopping me from using VS2013)
Hth…