Web deployment task failed. (The type initializer for 'Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentManager' threw an exception.)

Question

I am getting the following error when I use web deploy from visual studio 2010. Web deployment task failed. (The type initializer for \'Microsoft.Web.Deployment.DeploymentMa

Answer 1

I re-installed Web Deployment 3.5 to make it work on windows 8.1. Couldn't find the files in the registry.