When opening a Project Solution in Visual Studio, nothing is loaded and an error may appear
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PRODUCTK2 blackpearl 4.6.11 to 4.7
BASED ONK2 blackpearl 4.7
TAGSK2 Designer for Visual Studio
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Issue
When trying to open Project Solution in Visual Studio, nothing is being loaded.
You may get the following error:
Symptoms
- The solution could be opened before.
- This may occur if you have recently performed an upgrade on your client components.
- Creating a new K2 Project and workflow also resulted in the same issue: blank windows, with nothing being shown in Solution Explorer.
Troubleshooting Steps
To resolve this, please do the following:- Run the following command on your Visual Studio command prompt:
devenv.exe /resetsettings
- If the above does not work, then delete or rename this folder and restart Visual Studio:
C:Users{your username}AppDataLocalMicrosoftVisualStudio12.0ComponentModelCacheThe version of Visual Studio you have is specified by the number.
Visual Studio 2013 is 12.0
Visual Studio 2015 is 14.0
Visual Studio 2017 is 15.0