VS2008 - Unable to Add Web Reference to Web Application Project (The web services enumeration components are not available)

Question

I've run into a situation where I was unable to add a Web Reference in Visual Studio 2008 to a Web Application Project. The error I couldn't resolve was "The web services enumeration components are not available. You need to reinstall Visual Studio to add web references to your application."

How can I resolve this?

Answer 1

The fix for this is to run the following command:

devenv /ResetSkipPkgs

Source : Adding Web Service Reference Fails