This morning I faced a problem while opening my Visual Studio solution, and when I tried to run it, it said:
No exports were found that match the constraint contract name
How can I fix this problem?
Visual-studio – Error message “No exports were found that match the constraint contract name”
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Best Answer
I solved this problem by clearing Visual Studio Component Model Cache.
Just delete or rename this folder:
or
and restart Visual Studio.
The version of Visual Studio you have is specified by the number e.g.
Visual Studio 2012 is
11.0(as shown above)Visual Studio 2013 is
12.0Visual Studio 2015 is
14.0Visual Studio 2017 is
15.0Visual Studio 2019 is
16.0For those that don't know:
%LocalAppData%\is the same asC:\Users\{yourUsername}\AppData\LocalFor those who have multiple versions of Visual Studio installed, e.g. 2012 and 2013, it might help to remove the ComponentModelCache for both versions before restarting Visual Studio, e.g. 11.0 and 12.0.