Fixing "The 'CctSharedPackage' package did not load correctly"

I started Visual Studio 2013 this morning and opened the About dialog to make sure that I was running Update 1 on this particular machine.  Before the About dialog was displayed, I got the following error dialog:

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Microsoft Visual Studio
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The 'CctSharedPackage' package did not load correctly.

The problem may have been caused by a configuration change or by the installation of another extension. You can get more information by examining the file 'C:\Users\...\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ActivityLog.xml'.

Continue to show this error message?
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Yes   No  
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Ack!  What happened?  Apparently this is an issue with the Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 - v2.2.  Although further research shows that it's a problem with previous versions of the Azure SDK, as well.  So, I went to Control Panel, opened "Programs and Features", right-clicked on "Windows Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 - v2.2", and clicked "Change".  In the "Modify Setup" dialog that appeared and clicked "Repair".  This fixed the problem.

Rob

Comments

• Anonymous
  February 12, 2014
  That did the trick! Thanks a lot :)

• Anonymous
  February 12, 2014
  That was easy enough. Thanks!

• Anonymous
  February 12, 2014
  Thanks from me too.

• Anonymous
  February 12, 2014
  I'm glad this helped you guys out!

• Anonymous
  February 13, 2014
  Worked fo me aswell! Great!

• Anonymous
  February 16, 2014
  Perfect

• Anonymous
  February 17, 2014
  Thank you.

• Anonymous
  February 18, 2014
  Thanks!

• Anonymous
  February 18, 2014
  Thanks!!!

• Anonymous
  February 20, 2014
  Repairing as I type.  Thanks in advance.

• Anonymous
  February 21, 2014
  Worked a treat - thanks!

• Anonymous
  March 10, 2014
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• Anonymous
  March 16, 2014
  Thank you very much for posting this! Works for Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2012 - v2.1 as well.

• Anonymous
  March 30, 2014
  Fixed it. Thanks!

• Anonymous
  April 07, 2014
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• Anonymous
  April 09, 2014
  Happened to me too after installing Windows 8.1 update 1 (x64). Applying this fix now to Windows Azure 2.3, since that is the latest version on my computer, but I have 2.2 installed too. I'll see after the reboot whether I need to do the same for the older SDK.

• Anonymous
  May 07, 2014
  Thanks for this info,it worked for me

• Anonymous
  June 04, 2014
  Thanks...it worked for me...

• Anonymous
  July 02, 2014
  Just wanted to say thank you. This error totally farked my whole project, and your suggestion saved me what would have been hours and hours of frustration.

• Anonymous
  August 19, 2014
  I would like to kiss you :) I spend hours trying to find the solution!

• Anonymous
  August 26, 2014
  Installing the Roslyn Ctp 3 caused this issue, thanks for the fix

• Anonymous
  October 28, 2014
  Thanks. its work! Good job!

• Anonymous
  January 07, 2015
  Thanks! I ran into this installing .NET 4.5.2, and grateful for the fix.

• Anonymous
  January 13, 2015
  Great and thanks - works also for version 2.5 of Azure tools.

• Anonymous
  January 14, 2015
  Thanks Good job

• Anonymous
  January 14, 2015
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• Anonymous
  January 22, 2015
  I had same problem with Microsoft Azure Tools - v2.5. This quickly fixed it for me too. Thanks Robert.

• Anonymous
  February 18, 2015
  Should I also uninstall older Azure SDK's or toolkits?

• Anonymous
  May 13, 2015
  Thank you !!!

• Anonymous
  June 25, 2015
  thx

• Anonymous
  August 12, 2015
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• Anonymous
  January 27, 2016
  Thank you!  Was getting this in Visual Studio 2015.  Your recommendation fixed it.

• Anonymous
  March 25, 2016
  Thank you! I've updated Azure SDK. This solved the issue.

• Anonymous
  August 10, 2016
  Just renaming "ComponentModelCache" folder on below mentioned path worked for me. "AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0"No need to reinstall or repair Azure tools or OS.

• Anonymous
  November 06, 2016
  I get almost the same error dialog but for me it says "CommonAzureToolsPackage" instead of "CctSharedPackage".And if I go into my Programs and Features there's no "Windows Azure Tool".Can anybody help me? Thanks ...