Error occurred in deployment step 'Retract Solution': The language-neutral solution package was not found.

_{Tuesday, July 5, 2011 7:23 PM}

The SharePoint solution builds and when I try to deploy, I get the error.

SharePoint2010

Visual Studio 2010.

Any idea, out there?

Thank you.

_{Monday, July 11, 2011 7:47 AM ✅Answered}

Hi,

This error is caused by a caching issue in Visual Studio. Restart Visual Studio to address the problem.

Xue-Mei Chang

_{Tuesday, July 5, 2011 9:38 PM}

Restarted the box and it is working. But don't know what was wrong in the first place.

_{Monday, August 19, 2013 7:27 AM | 1 vote}

Hi, Re-opening VS didn't help, here is what did the magic for me.

From Powershell, delete the solution and redeploy using VS fixed for me.

(Get-SPSolution solutionname.wsp).Delete(). Solutionname.wsp is the name of the solution that is causing deployment failure.

Harish Vajja

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