Error when starting Visual Studio with NodeJS

by Unknown January 12, 2016 0 comments

Problem

Setting up NodeJs on Visual Studio 2013 sometimes got an unknown error, check in log file of VS something like this

    271
    2016/01/13 02:29:41.947
    Error
    VisualStudio
    Construction of frame content failed.
Frame identifier: ST:1:0:{2153a414-267e-4731-b891-e875adba1993}
Frame caption: Node.js Interactive Window
Exception details:
System.ComponentModel.Composition.ImportCardinalityMismatchException: No exports were found that match the constraint: 
	ContractName	Microsoft.NodejsTools.Repl.IReplWindowProvider
	RequiredTypeIdentity	Microsoft.NodejsTools.Repl.IReplWindowProvider
   at System.ComponentModel.Composition.Hosting.ExportProvider.GetExports(ImportDefinition definition, AtomicComposition atomicComposition)
   at System.ComponentModel.Composition.Hosting.ExportProvider.GetExportsCore(Type type, Type metadataViewType, String contractName, ImportCardinality cardinality)
   at System.ComponentModel.Composition.Hosting.ExportProvider.GetExportedValueCore[T](String contractName, ImportCardinality cardinality)
   at System.ComponentModel.Composition.Hosting.ExportProvider.GetExportedValue[T](String contractName)
   at System.ComponentModel.Composition.Hosting.ExportProvider.GetExportedValue[T]()
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.ComponentModelHost.ComponentModel.GetService[T]()
   at Microsoft.NodejsTools.Repl.ReplWindowPackage.Microsoft.VisualStudio.Shell.Interop.IVsToolWindowFactory.CreateToolWindow(Guid& toolWindowType, UInt32 id)
   at Microsoft.VisualStudio.Platform.WindowManagement.WindowFrame.ConstructContent()
  

How to solve

1.Close Visual Studio

2.Open the folder: %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ComponentModelCache\

3.Clean everything in this folder

4.Restart Visual Studio.