Could not load file or assembly "Microsoft.VisualStudio.VC.Interfaces

Question

I upgraded the visual studio 2017 community version to 15.3.0

and i got this new build error

Build error. Error: Could not load file or assembly ' Microsoft.VisualStudio.VC.Interfaces , version = 15.0.0.0, Culture = neutral, PublicKeyToken = b03f5f7f11d50a3a' or one of its dependencies. The system cannot find the specified file. ========== Clean: 0 succeeded, 0 failed, 0 skipped ==========

there is no reference error and nothing new in my project, except for the new VS update.

I am developing MVC 5 running under 4.5.1 framework.

Answer 1

Disable Lightweight Solution Load

• Tools ➜ Options ➜ Projects and Solutions ➜ General

2. Also turn off the Lightweight load in the "Properties" view of the solution:

3. Restart Visual Studio

Answer 2

reinstall it by removing

". vs" Folder Folder "packages" Folders "obj" and Reconstruction solutions

Answer 3

I had a similar experience, but with Enterprise.

The error continued until I turned off the download with a lightweight solution, but I will include other steps that I took in case they were preconditions.

• I installed Azure Feature Support, which wanted me to restart Visual Studio, but I didn’t do this until I started getting a build error message.
• I restarted the Visual Studio installer and clicked "Change", although I did not change any parameters because he wanted to do something, saying that the size of my installation would decrease by 15 MB. (Some cleanup from installing Azure Functions is my guess.)
• I turned off the Lightweight Solution Load, closed and reopened the solution, and he finally tried to build. This failed, and I got a lot of messages about running NuGet Restore and Build in parallel, but it worked. After I did a manual NuGet repair, the build worked.

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

Delete .vs folder for me