Visual Studio – FIX: The ‘SqlStudio Profile Package’ Package Did Not Load Correctly

I am not sure what changes I made in one of my Virtual Machine, but I was running into an issue. In this blog, we would discuss how to fix error “The ‘SqlStudio Profile Package’ package did not load correctly” while launching Visual Studio.

I checked into the file mentioned but didn’t find anything interesting to tell me the solution.

WORKAROUND/SOLUTION

I search on the internet and found various solutions. In this blog, I would share the consolidated list of solutions.

1. Based on one of the StackOverFlow link, delete below file.

%UserProfile%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\ComponentModelCache

2. Rename below folders

C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0

C:\Users\<UserName>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0

3. Download and install SSDT from below this link.
4. Go to ‘Add/Remove Programs’ in Control Panel. Select “Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data-Tier App Framework”, right click and choose “Repair”. If you find more versions of it, do the repair for all of them.

For me, option # 1 worked. If you face the same problem, please comment and let me know which option works for you. If you find any other solution, please comment and share with others.

Reference: Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com)

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