Symptoms
The Go to Definition sometimes stops working, and I don't know why. The first symptom that this is happening is that the coloring of some class is unaltered (white) when it should be green.Possibly related info
I am using VS 2017 Professional with ReSharper Ultimate.
Ways to fix it in order from least trouble afterwards to most
- Clean solution
- Close all files
- Clean solution
- Restart Visual Studio
- Recompile all
- This did not work for me.
- Empty the symbol cache
- Tools > Options > Debugging > Symbols > EmptySymbolCache
- Open VS in admin mode
- I have not tried this yet.
- Delete the .vs folder
- Close VS
- Delete the .vs folder from your solution folder
- Start VS
- Recompile
- I have not tried this yet.
- Delete obj and bin folders
- Close VS
- Delete obj and bin folders from your project folder
- Start VS
- Recompile
- I have not tried this yet
- Delete the .user file from the project folder (may be hidden)
- This will reset the customizations you've done to the IDE
- The user file contains user preferences, such as debugging and deployment settings; used for saving and loading project preferences for a specific user.
- I haven't tried this yet.
- Run devenv.exe /resetuserdata
- Devenv.exe may be found in...
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE - This will reset many of your IDE customizations, including installed plugins.
- ReSharper has to be repaired afterwards.
- This worked for me.
Source:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33029127/go-to-definition-cannot-navigate-to-the-symbol-under-the-caret
