Somehow my Properties window has become detached. When I view properties of any item in the Solution Explorer, it pops up but then I get a message that Visual Studio has stopped unexpectedly.
I've gone through my solution and deleted all .user and .suo files, but it still happens. I've also tried the reset layout option and no luck.
There must be a docking information file somewhere that I could delete or edit.
How can this be solved?
They are usually stored in a .vssettings file. So you could find that and delete/rename it.
Try running this in the command line:
devenv.exe /resetuserdata
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The debug type field is greyed out as are the build buttons. I opened a folder in visual studio 2019 with my project and source code files. I have not installed any extensions yet either. I read somewhere to select a startup item but none of the items in the solution explorer are valid except for Gradebook.dll in the debug folder although that doesn't seem to do anything.
Did you try to click the run button or press F5.
If so it should prompt you to select CPU. Then, run it again and it should work.
If that doesn't work try going into "Program.cs" in the Solution Explorer and make sure the Application.Run line is there.
I use to have some complex expressions in the watch window and out of a sudden the watch window is completely empty now. Of course I can put the expressions back manually but it would be really interesting to know where Visual Studio stores the watch window data? I doubt that it's stored in some solution related file since after a clean build the watches are still there.
I am using Visual Studio 2013 on Windows 10.
Watch window information is stored in the .suo file for the solution. I couldnt find it in any of the official documentation for, but the breakpoints are there and if you configure the watch window, then close VS, then delete the .suo file and open VS the watch window is empty. After closing VS, restoring the .suo file and opening VS again the watch window configuration is back. This is confirmed for instance by this blog post:
What informations are saved in my .suo file
This file is used by Visual Studio to store user/solution specific
information such as Opened Files, Expanded Nodes in the Solution
Visual Studio .suo fileExplorer, Opened Tool Windows and its
Positions, User Tasks, Breakpoints, Start-up Project, Contents of
Watch window, Whether the project is loaded/unloaded etc. The same
file is used by Visual Studio Addins (VSPackages) to persist
information that are specific to that solution/user.
I don't know where your .suo file went though, did you accidentally delete it?
Design View for Xaml on Visual Studio Professional RC 2012 used to work for me. But suddenly stopped for no reason I can figure.
Visual Studio 11 No longer Recognizes Xaml Files.
In properties, it treats XAML files like XML.
In solution Explorer it recognizes it as a xaml file
Right Click -> Design View opens a new Xaml code page
Controls Toolbox shows nothing
My OS is Windows 7 x64.
I have applied all updates up to July 2012 to VS11
I have tried Repairing Visual Studio & Resetting Settings but to no avail.
There is nothing in search or stackoverflow I could find to remedy this.
I have not tried un/reinstalling
Visual Studio 2012 RC designer does not recognize xaml for a Windows Metro app looks identical to my case but my problem suggests the issue is more general than his title.
Reinstalling fixed his issue but does not shed light on this frustrating problem.
Can someone help?
EDIT - Reinstalling nearly resolved the issue. Design view works, toolbox is populated, auto complete is back, XAML is available under tool-> options->text... and control element properties can be viewed.
Everything is normal except for the passing strange fact that XAML Code View no longer does syntax highlighting. This is not suprising since unlike what http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb907395(v=vs.90).aspx expects, there are no XAML prefixed items in the displayed items.
Perhaps relatively minor in the scheme of things but also a very annoying loss.
Suggestion 4 in this link worked for me:
devenv /resetuserdata in Command Prompt.
So at least in my case, re-installing and then the above command cleared all issues. It is possible that resetting user data could have made it unnecessary to re-install but I can't know that now.
I still can't say what caused this but it seems a pretty long tail issue that occurs sporadically and looks to have precursors in older versions.
Check the following:
Tools -> Options
Expand Text Editor -> XAML -> Miscellaneous
Make sure that "Always open documents in full XAML view" is not checked
Or perhaps the default program for opening .xaml files has changed:
Right-click your .xaml file in Solution Explorer
Click Open With...
Select XAML UI Designer
Click Set as Default button
Click OK
EDIT
This does appear to be a known bug with an earlier version of VS11.
If anybody is interested. I had the failure: Could not open XAML and config files in Visual Studio 2012. Now I detected the cause: the Solutions suo files were corrupted after a System Crash. So I (was not sure) rebuilt the sln file in a different Folder and copied the sln and suo files (they are hidden!) to the old Folder. That definitely brought me back the lost functionality. Maybe it is only necessary to delete the old suo files.
Juergen
I had the same issue in Vs 2012 express edition. Solved by running vs2012 command prompt and executing the code
WDExpress/ResetSettings
In Visual Studio 2013 I had a similar issue - I change my build action & from BundleResource to AndroidResource and I was able to get it working.
I downloaded my working last repo from github, and then I opened it to check it worked, which it did. I replaced the xaml, and cs files and it still didn't work. So I just copied all the files in the root,
App.config
App.xaml
App.xaml.cs
MainWindow.Xaml
MainWindow.xaml.cs
packages.config
.csproj
.sln
Everything loaded again, thank goodness.
I wrote a program and compiled it successfully, checked the exe file also. When i restarted visual studio; and wanted to open output file from resource view in visual studio; it gave an error "opened in another editor" . there is no such editor. i restarted my laptop too but it doesnt work – "OPENED IN ANOTHER EDITOR" error is under the resource view in Visual Studio. Instead of the .rc files under resource view, that error is appearing under resource view tab. I have closed all the windows also.
You probably have the .rc or Resource.h file opened in text mode in another tab. Close all source windows and try again.
In my case delete .suo file was the solution
I've opened a XAML file in VS2010 that crashes Visual Studio.
The problem is that when I close VS and reload it again the XAML file automatically opens and crashes my VS again.
I don't know how to solve this loop.
Is there a way to open the solution with all files closed?
You could delete your solution's '*.suo' file. This file contain the information about the open editors. If you delete it visual Studio will not open any editor when loading the solution.
However you might lose some other customizations as well but in general there is nothing really important in this file and Visual studio will automatically create a new .suo file
I will try even a more violent method.
Move it into trash, and then bring up Visual Studio 2010.
Open another file in Visual Studio so your XAML file opening record will be washed out by the new one.
Close Visual Studio, and then restore your XAML file.
I'm pretty sure that Microsoft's file system won't track where your XAML file go and then tell Visual Studio to open it in the new location, but putting it in trash temporally is a great option.
Try temporarily move the xaml file to another location. (or rename) so VS cant find it, then you should be able to open.