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The Visual Studio component cache is out of date please restart visual studio.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

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 Run that to clear out temp files and whatever it was that Visual Studio was saying was out of date - so it is removed.

Mark W. Mitchell
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    i got similar error for SQL server management studio after i reinstalled VS 2015 and this solution worked, thanks. – Hari Nov 22 '16 at 17:24
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    A colleague had this error with SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), cleaning up temp files did the trick, thanks. – Davos Apr 28 '17 at 01:13
  • 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. – abdul qayyum Apr 16 '18 at 07:58
  • The solution worked for me. The error came after i installed latest windows updates (1803), then i tried launching VS with this error. – EdwardM May 11 '18 at 16:12
  • 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! – StanMan3 Jul 03 '23 at 18:05
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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.

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DJMcMayhem
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    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! – Ryan Pavlik Aug 01 '16 at 20:42
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Open Run command (window key + r) type %temp% this will open your temp files folder, delete everything. Restart VS

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Running as administrator did the trick for me.

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

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Repair worked for me:

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

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

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