visual studio 2013 - VS2013 Database Project fails to build

Question

I created a new SQL Server Database Project in VS2013 (Update 3) and attempted to build but it fails. The only build output I receive follows:

------ Build started: Project: Database1, Configuration: Debug Any CPU ------
    Creating a model to represent the project...
Done building project "Database1.sqlproj" -- FAILED.

Build FAILED.
========== Build: 0 succeeded or up-to-date, 1 failed, 0 skipped ==========

If I build the project via MSBuild.exe with detail verbosity I see the following inner failure:

Task "SqlBuildTask"
  Creating a model to represent the project...
Done executing task "SqlBuildTask" -- FAILED.

After searching the web I have tried the following to resolve this to no avail:

-Restart VS

-Restart machine

-Repair VS Update 3 and reboot

-Repair VS2013 and reboot

What am I missing?

Answer 1

After contacting a friend at Microsoft, he suggested repairing the Data Tools install at

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssdt/download-sql-server-data-tools-ssdt

And that resolved it.

Thanks Chuck!