Author: .NET Web Development and Tools Blog | Posted on: 5/1/2013 6:42:39 PM | Views : 997

After releasing ASP.NET and Web Tools 2012.2, which is also included in Visual Studio 2012 update 2, we've received a few customer feedback about their VS shows an error dialog saying: An exception has been encountered. This may be caused by an extension. You can get more information by examining the file 'C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ActivityLog.xml'. When looking at ActivityLog.xml, the following error message may show up: System.ComponentModel.Composition.ImportCardinalityMismatchException: Duplicate EditorFormatDefinition exports with identical name attributes exist. Duplicate name is LESSCSSVARIABLEDECLARATIONCLASSIFICATIONFORMAT To solve this problem, one just need to update the " Web Essentials...(read more) Go to the complete details ...