Error with 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Package.Variant' after updating to VS 16.10

[wtywtykk]

Hi,

I upgraded VS to 16.10.0 and I’m having trouble using CLang intellisense. When I copy/cut/paste, it shows the following message:

Could not load type ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.Package.Variant’ from assembly ‘Microsoft.VisualStudio.Package.LanguageService.15.0, Version=16.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a’.

Regular VS projects and native intellisense is fine. Only CLang have such problem.

[johnc]

I have the same issue. There are certain *.cpp files that I cannot edit at all whilst others remain unaffected.

[support]

Hi everyone,

Thanks, we confirm that VS 16.10 is missing one of the classes used by language services (such as Clang IntelliSense) to query information from Visual Studio using the backward-compatible COM interfaces. We are working on this and will release a hotfix in the next couple of hours.

Update: we have added a workaround to the issue to the following build: VisualGDB-5.6.1.4119.msi. We will also release hotfixes for VisualGDB 5.5 and VisualKernel 3.1 soon.

Update #2: we have also released VisualGDB 5.5R5 and VisualKernel 3.1R9 that include a fix to this issue. You can get them via the regular download pages if you do not want to install the beta.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by support.
• This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by support.

[johnc]

Looks like the fix worked; thank you!

[dria74]

Hi all,

I’ve the same issue with VisualGDB 5.4 version (r12 does not solve the problem)

 

[support]

Hi,

VisualGDB 5.4 has been released over 2 years ago and is no longer maintained. In order to get the latest updates, we recommend updating to VisualGDB 5.6.

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