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I have recently updated visual studio 2013 with Azure SDK 2.6 and since then I get this message and publish project is not working either. I have removed and re-installed Azure SDK and also did a re-install of VS 2013 with SP4; but the issues remains same. I have also done this...

gacutil -i "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\Web Tools\Publish\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Internal.Contracts.dll"

gacutil -i "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\Web Tools\Publish\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Web.Publish.dll"

In ActivityLog.xml i see these failures...

755 2015/05/16 11:40:41.496 Error VisualStudio SetSite failed for package [CctSharedPackage] {77A5A151-6A9B-4D08-BC38-340AB29566E2}

80070002 Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.WindowsAzure.CommonAzureTools.Contracts.1.4, Version=1.4.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified. 756 2015/05/16 11:40:41.496 Error VisualStudio End package load [CctSharedPackage] {77A5A151-6A9B-4D08-BC38-340AB29566E2}
80070002 Could not load file or assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.WindowsAzure.CommonAzureTools.Contracts.1.4, Version=1.4.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the file specified.

The VS2013 is looking for version 1.4 of these two files while in my C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\Extensions\Microsoft\Web Tools\Publish folder where as I have version 2.3.60417.0

What could be wrong?

user3104116
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Open Add/Remove programs and find Windows Azure Tools for Visual Studio 2013, double-click it and just Repair.

Here is a blog with more details about the problem and alternate solutions. Repairing the Azure tools solved the problem for me.

enzi
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  • It did not work; I have removed all previous versions of VS as well. The other linked issue is that I am not able to publish the application as well. It seems that I need to manually edit the config file. – user3104116 May 19 '15 at 05:26
  • Thanks enzi, the suggested solution could be for some cases. I have had to remove all versions of VS and SQL Servers and then a clean re-install of VS 2013 solved the problem; which in fact is not a solution. – user3104116 May 25 '15 at 11:13
  • Too bad the workaround didn't work for you; I feel lucky that I was able to dodge that re-install bullet :/ – enzi May 26 '15 at 06:45