Visual Studio 2015 crashes and then: the XamarinIOSPackage package is not loaded correctly

Question

Visual Studio 2015 Update 1, Community, freezes after saving any changes or opening the .cshtml view.

Could you hint at actions that could lead to the resumption of VS?

This problem started after I installed the following two updates / extensions:

Microsoft Azure Tools for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 - v2.8

Extension of icon templates visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/8fa5bff2-e023-4e13-8b36-0244e935fb7d

I tried:

Uninstall an Azure update.

Removing the Ionic extension.

uninstall VS and reinstall it.

VS ActivityLog.xml says:

<type>Error</type> <source>VisualStudio</source> <description>End package load [XamarinIOSPackage]</description> <guid>{77875FA9-01E7-4FEA-8E77-DFE942355CA1}</guid> <hr>80131534</hr> <errorinfo>The type initializer for 'Xamarin.VisualStudio.IOS.BuildServerAddressProvider.BuildServerAddressProvider' threw an exception.</errorinfo> 

Answer 1

The best way to resolve this is to force the extension cache to reset. You can do this via:

• Close all instances of Visual Studio
• Delete everything in this folder C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ComponentModelCache
• Restart Visual Studio

Thanks!