IntelliSense does not work VS2017 - c#

I am having a problem with IntelliSense in my VS 2017.
When I miss some using statement, I receive an error and no suggestions:
Here is an example:
I have a class called Profile, but I am not seeing any error or any suggestion. Can anybody help me with that?

I would suggest to install 'Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools' by going to Tools -> Extensions and Updates -> Online, and searching for it by name. I'm running this on a very old PC, and it doesn't really drain performance.
You can also try the series of solutions proposed by SajjadHashmi here to fix a broken IntelliSense.

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Default template for ASP.NET project in VS Community 2019 not working

So a little bit of context here, I'm completely new to C# and ASP.NET, I was following this video to help setup my project and learn the basics. I downloaded VS Community 2019 (I usually use VS Code) and tried to create a new project, the creation process is not exactly the same as the video (I assume it's a difference from Visual Studio to Visual Studio Community) but I thought that it's not different enough to be a problem.
Right after creating the project, I tried running it to check that everything is fine, but it said that there are build errors and asked if I want to run it anyway, I said yes, that's when I got this error:
I assume it's a generic error that doesn't explain what exactly went wrong, so I went to check what those build errors are, and to my surprise, there are a lot of them :
I copied some of them to look for a reason why this is happening but haven't found anything meaningful so here am I, asking here. Any ideas ?
Thank you for reading.
Edit : I recreated a project with Authentication Type "None" and it works without any problem. Retried after that with Authentication Type "Individual Accounts" and I get the build errors again. Is there something missing in my PC that I need to install or add to the project ?
I'll try to answer this as accurate as possible;
but it said that there are build errors and asked if I want to run it anyway, I said yes, that's when I got this error
This will not work. The build must succeed (at least once) in order to be able to start.
The difference might be due to a different version of visual studio, or a different template. The errors suggest you are missing some nuget packages or references.
Best you can do is find an up to date tutorial or follow the steps very precise.
Alternatively, you can start with a simple default template - those should work out of the box and you can build from there.
The snapshot you posted with the errors tells you exactly what's wrong. You are missing the packages as they don't exist in the local cache.
Try this:
Go to Menu Tools > Nuget Package Manager > Manage Nuget Packages for Solution...
On the new window that opens, verify that the Package Source combo box in the top right corner is set to "nuget.org" or "All".
That should allow Visual studio to go to the web looking for the missing packages and restore them.
Alright, finally found the problem, like Stefan said, it's a NuGet package problem.
There was no online source for the packages, so I added it like this :
Name : nuget.org
Source : https://api.nuget.org/v3/index.json
After that, you go to Project -> Manage NuGet packages -> Updates -> Select all packages and update. Then you need to create a new project (already created ones don't work and I don't exactly know why).

ENC1003 C# Changes made in project will not be applied while the application is running

I am getting this incredibly annoying warning for every C# file in my ASP.NET Core project when I debug it after hitting F5:
Because this error appears only during runtime (not during build), I can't even suppress it using the "Suppress warnings" box in the project properties. I've tried putting 1003 and ENC1003 in there and it still appears, cluttering up my warnings window. Does anyone know why this thing is appearing and how I can get rid of it?
UPDATE: It doesn't fix the fundamental problem which is that the warning is generated in the first place, but I've found a way to suppress it. Create a GlobalSuppressions.cs file at the project root, and add the line:
[assembly: System.Diagnostics.CodeAnalysis.SuppressMessage(null, "ENC1003")]
Related Github issue: https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore/issues/13284
Try to get the Lastest Version of your Visual Studio and try again, If Persist, Install Visual Studio 2019 v16.4 Preview 2.
Also Check out the following content>> https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/601258/edits-were-made-to-the-code-which-cannot-be-applie.html. You can also track this same issue on ASP.NET Github: https://github.com/aspnet/AspNetCore/issues/13284. We already have a fix for it, which will be available on Visual Studio 16.4 Preview 2
I was facing the same problem in my Visual Studio 2019, and therefore I had to update VS to the latest version and I was good to go.
Hope helps someone :) :)
You can go to build options and select the option to build solution (build->build solution), this should solve the problem and you will able to continue your project in solution mode.
I had this problem also in Visual Studio 2022 (17.0.5) running API projects. Restarting Visual Studio helps.
In the past, while debugging UAP apps, if I edit the code while the app is running it will let me know that it needs to recompile the whole application. (Usually when adding some sort of static variable or removing a function etc... Tht in and of itself is not a bug.
The bug is that when I STOP debugging, the error remains until I restart the IDE.
I would argue that suppressing the warning is a horrible idea - It means that you have no way of knowing if the code changes you made during debug were implemented.
Instead, try restarting the IDE and doing a clean and build. I don't remember what I do to make the error go away anymore, as I have not experiences this bug in at least 8 months.

Visual Studio 2015 diagnostic tools no longer working

I have Visual Studio 2015 Community Edition Update 3 running on Windows 7 SP1 64 bit, which I use to develop C# applications.
I love the diagnostic tools during debugging to spot performance problems early on. However, they stopped working for me sometime in the last month or so (possibly related to installing Update 3, although I have no information to back that up). I see the error message "CPU Profiling while debugging is not available on this version of Windows. To see CPU usage details, run the CPU Usage tool without the debugger (Debug -> Performance Profiler...)."
Things I have tried without success:
Completely uninstalling and reinstalling VS.
Performing a repair on my VS installation
Ensuring "Use {Managed,Native} compatability mode" is disabled in debug options.
Enabling the Diagnostics Hub logging info as described in this question. No error messages that I can see appear in the logs.
This still happens even if I create a new WPF project, so I don't believe it has any project-specific cause.
Are there any other things I can try? Obviously they were working before, so I don't believe the error message about my version of Windows being unsupported.
Deleting my solution's .suo (solution options) file fixed the issue. My initial statement of this bug affecting even new projects seems to be wrong. Although, I did do a complete reinstall of VS after doing that test, so it's possible that impacted the outcome.
Full disclosure: I work at Microsoft, specifically on the Diagnostic Tools team.
There are parts of the Diagnostic Tools that won't work on Windows 7, specifically taking a CPU profiling trace while debugging. This is a limitation of the operating system and ETW. If you are just interested in the graphs and debugging events, those should work. You can turn on logging for our tools which might give you some insight into why they are not working:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\DiagnosticsHub\LogLevel
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\DiagnosticsHub\LogDirectory
For LogLevel you can use one of the following strings "All", "Info", "Debug", "Warning", "Error" (In your case I would use All to better see what is happening). As for LogDirectory it is a directory of your choice "C:\Logs". When your done reproing the scenario, close VS to flush the logs and don't forget to delete these keys as the diagnostic tools logging is pretty system intensive.
You should be able to search for "Error ---" in the logs to get an idea of what is happening. We have seen problems with certain VS extensions and custom projects.
Also, feel free to also post the issue at: https://connect.microsoft.com/ Each issue that is received there gets turned into a bug and assigned to the corresponding team.
I had som issues with that a while ago.
1) Check Tools>Options>Debugging>General>Enable Diagnostic Tools while debugging
2) Check Tools>Options>Intellitrace>Enable intellitrace
I had the same issue, although deleting the .suo file did not help, I also repaired Visual Studio 2015 Professional and then it worked. So for future readers, if deleting the .suo does not help, try to also repair Visual Studio and vice versa.
None of the others worked for me. What I had to do was close all Visual Studios and re-opened it and the diagnostic tool worked.
(I deleted the .suo file, made sure all the correct options were enabled, but because I had another Visual Studios session running, none of it worked until I closed all)
I had already another visual studio instance running with diagnostic one. That was the issue for me.
I faced this problem today and it was not easy to find working solution.
This helped to me:
Reinstall Cumulative Servicing Release for Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 (KB3165756)
Direct link to download: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?linkid=816878.
After Repair action (I had it installed before, otherwise install) prompted to restart computer, did it and Diagnostic tools worked again.
I had a similar problem with Visual Studio 2015 Pro Update 3 running on Windows 10 Home. The runtime display of memory and cpu usage stopped working. Deleting the .suo file fixed the problem, as indicated by proc-self-map's answer. The .suo file was buried in the .vs hidden directory so I removed the whole .vs subdirectory. Now the runtime display of memory and cpu usage works like a charm again. No reinstall required.

ReSharper "Cannot resolve symbol" even when project builds

My Tools:
Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate + Update 1
ReSharper v7.1.25.234
My Solution Build Status: Build Successfully
But when I install ReSharper and ReSharper code analysis is enable, many keywords of my code are red with this error:
"Cannot resolve symbol XXX"
Another picture of my project >>
The ReSharper “CANNOT RESOLVE SYMBOL” errors are everywhere, but my project build process is successfully, and it works correctly.
Additional Note: If I disable ReSharper Code Analysis, my project will be Normal, but I want to use ReSharper code analysis.
I tried ReSharper → Options → General → Clear Cache. But I still have this problem!
One month ago, I got these errors when I uninstalled Visual Studio 2012 RC and installed VS 2012 RTM.
I've already uninstalled and installed ReSharper again. But I have this problem yet!
My solution has five projects >> two loaded projects (main project + resource project) and three unloaded projects
I realize that my Visual Studio also has bigger problems (More information on Stack Overflow)
I can't add any reference to my projects (even inside new solutions and new projects)
I can't install any package (by "Packet Manager Console" or Manage NuGet Package)
I can't update any package (by "Packet Manager Console" or Manage NuGet Package)
I've done a lot of suggestions (of myself and others)
Re-resister some DLL files
Using some windows and registry repair tools
Remove ReSharper
Repair Visual Studio
and...
But I could not solve it.
I'm thinking of installing a new Windows :(
What is wrong, and how can I fix it?
Try Visual Studio → menu Tools → Options → ReSharper, Suspend button and Resume again (no need to close the window). This works in my case.
VS -> Tools -> Options -> ReSharper Suspend button
Clear Contents of -> AppData\Local\JetBrains\ReSharper\v7.1\SolutionCaches
VS -> Tools -> Options -> ReSharper Resume button
This worked for me (VS2012u4, R# 7.1.3):
Resharper > Options > Environment: General > Clear Caches
Restart Visual Studio
Clear Resharper cache: Resharper -> Options -> General -> Clear Caches, close and reopen the solution. It worked in R# 9.0 Update 1
This happens in ReSharper when you have two different versions of the same library in your solution. For example project A references automapper version 1.1 and project B references automapper version 1.0.
Visual Studio will often compile and run as expected in the situation as it chooses one of the DLLs to bind to. However ReSharper gets massively confused. For me this should be a ReSharper error that it asks you to resolve rather than just going bonkers.
UPDATE:
I ran into this two days ago (a day after I made this post) by total coincidence and came across this link where they say that it is caused by a bug in the VS API. I tried everything that they recommended and was unable to resolve it even temporarily: I had Autofac 2.6.x that I'd downloaded from google.code and then swapped it over for the NuGet package version and it willfully refused to see the new reference no matter what I did.
They suggest installing the R# 8 EAP but for me it was less hassle to just downgrade to the old version of Autofac.
Not much in the way of help, but maybe useful.
This was happening to me with Visual Studio 2015 and ReSharper Ultimate 10.0.2. I tried pretty much all the solutions written prior to this answer (apart from any reinstallations) and nothing worked.
I got it working again with a variety of the above steps in a very specific order:
ReSharper → Options → Environment → General → Clear Caches
this must be done before suspending ReSharper as otherwise this option is unavailable
this clears out the files in C:\Users\YourUsername\AppData\Local\JetBrains\Transient\ReSharperPlatformVs14\v04 as mentioned in some other posts
Tools → Options → ReSharper Ultimate → Suspend
Close Visual Studio
this actually performs the ReSharper cache clear
Open Visual Studio
Open the solution
I waited for Visual Studio to detect there were no code issues in IntelliSense and may have performed a build at this point.
Tools → Options → ReSharper Ultimate → Resume
Hopefully after the last step you can breathe a sigh of relief that you don't have to reinstall anything, I certainly did!
It's usually happen by config file corrupt or wrong detect.
Just delete .vs folder, restart VS to reset config. It will work almost case
I had similar problems and cleared the caches found at:
AppData\Local\JetBrains\ReSharper\v7.1\SolutionCaches
Solved the problems for me
Running VS2012 u3
I had the same problem (VS 2017). In my case it was different versions of target framework - one assembly targeted 4.52, another 4.62 - after setting those to the same version in both assemblies it started working again.
As you see, the solution is what everyone has already mentioned - simply by Suspending ReSharper, then Clearing the Caches, and finally Resuming it. But, no one mentioned how to do it without closing/restarting Visual Studio.
Just follow these steps:
Getting ReSharper Cache Location
Manually by going to ReSharper Options > Environment > General > Store Solution Caches in (Combo Box) (marked 2 in the image). Selecting Custom Folder, then Copying the location of the Caches Folder from the text box shown (marked 3 in the image). Reverting the settings back. The 1 marked shows the ClearCache Button. It's usually wouldn't work so leave it.
Suspending ReSharper
You can do this by going to Tools > Options > ReSharper Or ReSharper Ultimate > Suspend Now (Button)
Clearing the Cache
Go to the location copied earlier in step 1 and delete everything in that folder. And yes, I do mean everything.
Resuming ReSharper
You can do this by again going to Tools > Options > ReSharper Or ReSharper Ultimate > Resume (Button)
Above links of clearing the cache and/or suspending the ReSharper did not work for me. I just 'refreshed' the project, which was showing this problem, from the solution explorer and the problem goes away. Sadly, it keeps on recurring and only option it to keep on refreshing every time this problem recurs.
I have VS2012 with ReSharper 8.1 on Windows 8
I was just having the same issue with ReSharper 8.2 in Visual Studio 2013, and none of the usual solutions here of clearing caches, suspending ReSharper or re-installing ReSharper was working.
In my case I ended up solving it as follows... I looked at one of the symbols that it couldn't resolve and noted it was in System.Web.Http.dll. I then found that this was in the Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Core NuGet package. I used the package manager console to try and uninstall that package, except of course it told me that it couldn't due to other dependencies.
So I uninstalled each dependency up to and including Microsoft.AspNet.WebApi.Core, and then re-installed each package again in the reverse order. ReSharper picked everything up correctly as it was installed, and now seems fine.
I had the same issue and unloading and reloading problematic project helped me to clear out this issue for ReSharper. Hope this helps.
I ended up needing to request Resharper to clear its cache along with doing it manually through Windows File Explorer. This finally resolved the issue for me.
(As reported in many of the solutions here) RESHARPER > Options... > Environment > General > Clear Caches.
Close Visual Studio.
Go to this path in File Explorer for Resharper 10 in Visual Studio 2015: %localappdata%\JetBrains\Transient\ReSharperPlatformVs14
Delete all subfolders and their contents within that folder.
Restart Visual Studio, reload your Solution and wait for Resharper to initialize itself for the Solution.
For me for VS2015, I had to update Resharper to version 2016.2.2 to resolve the issue.
I had already tried (of which none worked for me):
suspending / resuming
suspending / clearing cach (using tools > options button) / resuming
suspending / clearing cach (using Windows file system) / resuming
moving cache to solution folder / restarting visual studio
many other combinations of all or some of above
I hope that may help someone.
Resharper -> Options
Caches -> Store solution caches in: (Change folder to another one).
Or try to manually clean up R# cache folder
I'm using 7.1, and this worked for me:
Uninstall resharper
go to %appdata% and remove JetBrains\Resharper and ..\Local\JetBrains\Resharper folders
re-install resharper
None of the cache cleanup worked for me. All of the symbols in any of our private NuGet repros just stopped being picked up with R# enabled, very frustrating.
I got this feedback from JetBrains support, which DID work, after toggling and restarting VS2019:
disable the following option - ReSharper | Options | Environment | General | Read solution model directly
I did everything above with no fix.
Then I did a step from another SO Q/A (don't remember which one) which was to set System.Web.Mvc to Copy Local true. Recompile my project and the errors went away.
When I set this assembly back to Copy Local false, the errors didn't return.
I my case, I tried all the suggestions above.
But, at some point I realized that the problem persists even if Resharper is suspended.
So, I looked for similar problem in VS itself and found the solution in the comments for the accepted answer in this SO post.
I'm listing my steps for brevity.
VS -> Tools -> Options -> ReSharper Suspend button
Build solution. Notice all references still unresolved
Clean the solution
Restart VS
Build the solution without Resharper. Notice all references resolved
VS -> Tools -> Options -> ReSharper Resume button
I am using VS2015, R#10. None of the suggested solution worked for me. I deleted the contents of the bin folder of my solution and rebuild the entire solution, that seems to have resolved the issue. Before deleting the contents of the bin folder, I had tried suspending and resuming R#, doing clear cache from R# -> option -> general setting, and also manually deleting the contents from \AppData\Local\JetBrains\Transient\ReSharperPlatformVs12\v01\SolutionCaches.. Hope it helps someone.
I was having the same issue in my Visual Studio 2015 with Resharper Ultimate and tried the solutions as suggested above, but none worked for me.
Then upgrading Resharper to latest release solved my issue.
What helped in my case after several of the suggestions above didn't:
Removed one project reference (of one of the libraries where ReSharper claimed not to be able to find it even though it was correctly referenced).
Use ReSharper’s "Resolve" on one of its usages to add the reference again.
After that, it worked fine, even though none of the project files were actually modified in the process.
I have the same problem.Clean Resharper cache and Suspend Resharper not worked for me.I just close visual studio, uninstall Resharper,and then install Resharper,the problem was gone.
I was referencing a NetStandard2.0 project that didn't get recognized by R#.
I cleared the caches but that did not help me.
Downloading the latest version and updating R# did work for me.
This is the version I'm now running:
JetBrains ReSharper Ultimate 2017.3.2 Build 111.0.20180201.63358
ReSharper 2017.3.20180201.111630
Just download R# and it will recognize already installed versions. Updating to the latest version is really easy.
When I disabled ReSharper, Visual Studio was also giving the same error, even though the project built successfully. What I did to resolve the issue was:
Remove the project from the solution.
Right-click the solution, Add Existing Project, select the project file and add it again.
After performing these steps, the syntax errors went away in Visual Studio, and after I enabled ReSharper again, it also had no errors.
I also had this problem. All previous solutions did not help for me or helped for a very short time.
In my case, the problem was that I connected the .Net Framework 4.7.2 project to a project that has version 4.5.2. After I updated both projects to version 4.7.2, the problem was resolved.
I think that to solve the problem you need to have the same version of the projects. Or connect a smaller version to a larger one, but not vice versa, as was the case in my case.
In Rider 2020.3 I just did a Build -> Clean, and then it worked.
For me, I think my solution just got caught in a weird state when I was changing which branch of my local Git repo I was on. Simply switching to the previous branch I was on before the problem started, telling VS to reload all the files, then switching back to the desired branch and reloading again fixed it.
We saw this problem as well, specific to files which were shared by multiple projects. There is a combo box in the upper left corner of the editor window that lets you switch project context for the file (and hence the references that impact symbol resolution).
Resharper makes it easy to accidentally open the wrong "version" of a shared file by its "go to file or symbol" commands.
Switching context back to the project I use in the solution was all I needed to do to fix this issue.

Is there a way to log the module that Visual Studio loads?

I am encountering a big performance problem when building lately, and I suspect that it's some sort of add-on problem.
Disabling all my extensions did not help. However, running vs in safemode (devenv /safemode) helped a great deal.
Now I just need to figure out what was different between VS running in safe mode vs. running normally. Is there a better way to diagnose this performance problem?
I did a quick google search and came up with the following:
"There’s a built-in command line switch devenv.exe /log to log Visual Studio activity, e.g. which packages got loaded, etc. "
Also, most versions of Visual Studio accept a /SafeMode option to start without all the extensions/plugins

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