"The visual Studio component cache is out of date, please restart Visual Studio."

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James picture James · Feb 29, 2016 · Viewed 46.9k times · Source

I'm on windows 7, using Atmel studio 7.0. When I opened up my project in Atmel Studio, it failed to load and gave this error:

The Visual Studio component cache is out of date please restart visual studio.

When I closed and reopened Atmel Studio, the same error continued. I also tried right clicking on my project, and selecting "Reload project" but then I got this error:

Value cannot be null. Parameter name: url

How can I open up my project?

Answer

Mark W. Mitchell picture Mark W. Mitchell · Nov 11, 2016

Using "disk cleanup" to cleanup temporary files and that did the trick - as I do not have the "amtelstudio" mentioned - so that was not applicable in my case.

Using Windows explorer - click on the C drive, go to properties and the disk cleanup button is on that panel. Run that to clear out temp files and whatever it was that Visual Studio was saying was out of date - so it is removed.

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