Visual Studio 2013 - errors when editing build definition

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I get several errors when trying to edit my build definition. This has worked fine before, but I suspect that installing Visual Studio 2015 has messed things up.

History: First I had Visual Studio 2013 Ultimate. At this time there were no problems Recently I installed Visual Studio 2015 Professional. For licensing reasons, I had to remove VS 2013 Ultimate and install VS 2013 Professional instead.

In VS 2013 Professional-> Team Explorer->Builds I now get an error when I edit my build definition. I suspect that the installation/reinstallation is the cause.

  1. Under Process->Items to build I click the add button and get this error message:

[A]Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Workflow.Activities.BuildSettings cannot be cast to [B]Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Workflow.Activities.BuildSettings. Type A originates from 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Workflow, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' in the context 'Default' at location 'C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.Net\assembly\GAC_MSIL\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Workflow\v4.0_10.0.0.0__b03f5f7f11d50a3a\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Workflow.dll'. Type B originates from 'Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Workflow, Version=12.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' in the context 'Default' at location 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE\PrivateAssemblies\Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Workflow.dll'.

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check this link it shows about the Update from 2010 to 2012 , might be the same case here also – The Blue Shirt Developer
Thx. Editing my xaml does not seem to be an option though, as my colleagues are able to edit the build definition without errors. There must be some local setting/assembly issue on my machine that I can change – Flodpanter
just changee in TfsBuildServiceHost.exe.config will do the trick which should be similar to this: – The Blue Shirt Developer
<assemblyBinding xmlns="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:asm.v1"> <dependentAssembly><assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Client"publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a" culture="neutral"/><bindingRedirectoldVersion="10.0.0.0" newVersion="11.0.0.0"/></dependentAssembly><dependentAssembly> <assemblyIdentity name="Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Build.Workflow" publicKeyToken="b03f5f7f11d50a3a" culture="neutral"/> <bindingRedirect oldVersion="10.0.0.0" newVersion="11.0.0.0"/> </dependentAssembly> </assemblyBinding> – The Blue Shirt Developer
Maybe this will work. However I rather not make any server changes. There must be a local setting in registry or other place that could resolve the error locally. – Flodpanter

1 Answers

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You can also try to:

  1. Clean the Cache folder on client computer. The folder path is: C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Team Foundation\x.0\Cache. (x is the TFS version)
  2. Clean the Cache folder on Server machine. The folder path is: C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Team Foundation\Web Access\Cache_v10.0
  3. Try resetting settings and add-in settings (devenv /ResetSettings) and (devenv /ResetSkipPkgs), try rebuilding all templates (devenv /setup).