The 'ProviderPackage' package did not load correctly

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I installed Visual Studio 2012 and at a later date Update 2. After installing Update 2, when I load any project, I get the following error:

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Microsoft Visual Studio
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The 'ProviderPackage' package did not load correctly.

The problem may have been caused by a configuration change or by the installation of another extension. You can get more information by examining the file 'C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\ActivityLog.xml'.

Continue to show this error message?
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After locating the ActivityLog.xml, I see the following set of errors:

<entry>
    <record>300</record>
    <time>2013/04/23 18:32:54.002</time>
    <type>Information</type>
    <source>VisualStudio</source>
    <description>Begin package load [ProviderPackage]</description>
    <guid>{5F2E5E42-4192-4D79-A0D8-1D881E808829}</guid>
</entry>
<entry>
    <record>301</record>
    <time>2013/04/23 18:32:54.012</time>
    <type>Error</type>
    <source>VisualStudio</source>
    <description>SetSite failed for package [ProviderPackage]</description>
    <guid>{5F2E5E42-4192-4D79-A0D8-1D881E808829}</guid>
    <hr>80131522</hr>
    <errorinfo>Method 'GetHostedIntellisenseTypes' in type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Progression.DTEWrapperCached' from assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.GraphProviderPackage, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' does not have an implementation.</errorinfo>
</entry>
<entry>
    <record>302</record>
    <time>2013/04/23 18:32:54.012</time>
    <type>Error</type>
    <source>VisualStudio</source>
    <description>End package load [ProviderPackage]</description>
    <guid>{5F2E5E42-4192-4D79-A0D8-1D881E808829}</guid>
    <hr>80131522</hr>
    <errorinfo>Method 'GetHostedIntellisenseTypes' in type 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Progression.DTEWrapperCached' from assembly 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.GraphProviderPackage, Version=11.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' does not have an implementation.</errorinfo>

Google searches do not reveal an exact match on my issue. I've tried searching the packages on the install ISO and cannot locate a package that needs to be repaired...

F:\packages>dir /s *provider*
 Volume in drive F is VS2012_ULT_MSDN_ENU
 Volume Serial Number is 4A21-C8BD

 Directory of F:\packages\SSDT

   07/26/2012  11:30 AM           780,288 DbSqlPackageProvider.msi
               1 File(s)        780,288 bytes

     Total Files Listed:
               1 File(s)        780,288 bytes
               0 Dir(s)               0 bytes free

Any other ideas?

Close Visual Studio.
Open a Developer Command Prompt for Visual Studio 2012 (as administrator).
Type devenv /setup.
Restart Visual Studio.

Possible duplicate of Visual Studio 2012 error: Package 'Visual C++ package' failed to load

See Visual C++ package: failed to load?????

This is Aaron's (Aaron Reed) answer from above, just copied as an answer instead of part of the question:

Fixed it... Fixed it... Fixed it...

Opened Programs and Features (run: appwiz.cpl)
Sorted list of installed apps by: Install Date
Filtered list by adding "SQL" to the upper right search filter
List item

I installed VS2012 on 4/1/13, so I went through each listed SQL item in the list, and right click --> Repair

From there I ran VS2012 and opened the target Solution file without issue.

My list:

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data-Tier App Framework
Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools - enu (11.1.20627.00)
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Management Objects (x64)
Microsoft System CLR Types for SQL Server 2012 (x64)
Microsoft System CLR Types for SQL Server 2012
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Management Objects
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Transact-SQL Compiler Service
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Command Line Utilities
Microsoft SQL Server Data Tools Build Utilities - enu (11.1.206...
Microsoft SQL Server Compact 4.0 SP1 x64 ENU
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 T-SQL Language Service
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Native Client
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Data-Tier App Framework
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Express LocalDB
Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Transact-SQL SpriptDom

This worked for me -

In order to fix the issue one needs to clear the Visual Studio cache under:

%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\ComponentModelCache

Thanks go to blog post SetSite failed for package [Microsoft.VisualStudio.Editor.Implementation.EditorPackage].

Usually this can be fixed by clearing the Visual Studio cache under:

Visual Studio 2012: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0\ComponentModelCache

Visual Studio 2013: %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0\ComponentModelCache

The 'ProviderPackage' package did not load correctly

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