How to fix visual studio catastrophic failure in SolutionBuildManager.cs

Thank you for reaching out the error message indicates a deep seated corruption or conflict, frequently involving the user settings,caches, Or specific extensions within Visual Studio. He had his step by step solution like to resolve these issues, starting with the least invasive methods:

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**1.      **Clear Visual Studio component and Cache files

corrupted component caches  and temporary files are the most cause of “catastrophic failure” and E_UNEXPECTED errors.

Step one: delete ComponentModel Cache

·         Close all instances of Visual Studio.

·         Navigate to the following folder:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\17.0_[YourInstanceID]\ComponentModelCache

(the 17.0_[yourInstanceID] part is for VS 2022. The Id is a uniquw string of characters)

·         Delete the entire contents of the ComponentModelCache folder.

Step 2: Clean the Temp files

·         Open the Run dialog.(Windows key+R)

·         Type %Temp% And press Enter.

·         Delete as many files and folder as possible within the temp folder.(Skip any that window says Are currently in use.).  

**2.      **Reset Visual Studio settings.

Resetting the environment settings can resolve conflicts caused by customization These are corrupted configurations.

Step one: Use the developer command prompt.

·         Open the Developer command prompt for VS 2022.(Search for it in the start menu.)

·         Run the following command

Devenv/ResetSettings

·         This will restore your environment setting to Fear Factory defaults.

Step 2:Try/ResetSkipPkgs(If it's step one fails.)

·         If the issue persists., Run this more aggressive command to prevent loading VS packages that failed to load.

Devenv/ResetSkipPkgs

**3.      **Repair or reinstall Visual Studio.

If the above software based fixes do not work, the core installation files may be changed or damaged.

Step one.: Repair Visual Studio.

·         Open the Visual Studio installer.(Search for it in start menu)

·         Find your Visual Studio professional 2022 installation.

·         Click the more dropdown button and select Repair

·         Allow the repair process to complete and then restart you computer.

Step 2: Perform a clean reinstallation(last resort)

·         If the repair fails, go back to the Visual studio installer and choose uninstall.

·         After uninstallation, manually delete any remaining folders for Visual Studio in the installation location.

·         Run the Visual Studio installer again and perform a fresh install of Visual Studio professional 2022

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