"The visual Studio component cache is out of date, please restart Visual Studio."

Question

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The Visual Studio component cache is out of date please restart visual studio.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

Exudate

Answer 1

The solution was actually very simple. I closed Atmel studio, and looked for

%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Temp\AtmelStudio_7.0.790

I deleted this whole folder, and when I reopened Atmel Studio, everything worked fine.

Exudate

The version might vary, but deleting the AtmelStudio_* files in %TEMP% and starting it back up again did seem to work for me too, thanks! – Mccloud

nothing in that folder – Particiaparticipant

Answer 2

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 Run that to clear out temp files and whatever it was that Visual Studio was saying was out of date - so it is removed.

Balkan

i got similar error for SQL server management studio after i reinstalled VS 2015 and this solution worked, thanks. – Peripheral

A colleague had this error with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), cleaning up temp files did the trick, thanks. – Sheply

It is working in SSMS 17.6. Error came after unexpected shutdown and then an error pop up when I tried to recover files. After that when I clicked the modify button on stored proc this error came up. Deleting temp folder resolved the problem. – Lira

The solution worked for me. The error came after i installed latest windows updates (1803), then i tried launching VS with this error. – Bugeye

This solution also worked for me, I had updated SSMS 19.0 to 19.1; error came up any time I tried to open a New Query. Running Disk Cleanup resolved the error. Thanks! – Laryngitis

there is no disk cleanup tool in win 10 , nor any previous version of windows – Particiaparticipant

Answer 3

Open Run command (window key + r) type %temp% this will open your temp files folder, delete everything. Restart VS

Zeller

Answer 4

Running as administrator did the trick for me.

Shive

Answer 5

• Close SSMS
• Delete files in C:\Windows\Temp
• Open SSMS

Rowdy

Answer 6

I recommend delete all temporal files like visual because AtmelStudio_7.0.790 isn't in other versions

Homespun

Answer 7

Repair worked for me:

Control Panel\All Control Panel Items\Programs and Features >> Microsoft Sql Server 2016>>Repair.

Arkose

Answer 8

Start Management Studio as Administrator.. It's worked for me.

Immiscible

The question even says that he is running Atmel Studio, not Management Studio. – Ostium