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I have just installed Visual Studio 2013 and have run into a problem with the Extensions and Updates Manager. When ever I click it I get a "object reference not set to an instance of an object" See http://screencast.com/t/LKK0TWcz

I've re-installed VS2013 twice...to no avail. Any ideas>>

PaulCleghorn
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  • Have you tried repairing Visual Studio? if that doesn't work try starting it in safe mode and removing extensions till you find the one that could be the cause – JaredPar Mar 23 '14 at 15:01
  • tried uninstalling, safe mode, standing on my head whilst juggling lemons...still no good. – PaulCleghorn Mar 24 '14 at 15:50
  • that's pretty baffling. Have you tried attachingc a debugger and seeing where the exception is thrown from? That's the next step I would take. – JaredPar Mar 24 '14 at 15:54
  • Yep...done that..it doesn't break into the debugger for some reason..Turned on break on all errors...just doesn't catch the exception – PaulCleghorn Mar 25 '14 at 16:24
  • did you make sure to disable "just my code"? – JaredPar Mar 25 '14 at 17:02

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Delete all files in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\*.*.

Nathan Tuggy
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davcs86
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    You should probably also explain *why* they should delete files. ; ) – Radiodef May 07 '15 at 01:18
  • Thanks Nathan. Well, It's a hard reset for VS 2013 settings. More details [link](http://stackoverflow.com/a/25416954/2423859) – davcs86 May 07 '15 at 17:42