'Visual Studio not showing all Projects in solution
I'm not sure why, but Visual Studio is not showing all the projects in my solution. I need them to show so I can set as default project under solution explorer. I'm not seeing a fix for this issue in a general internet search. The closest I see is VS not showing files folders, but this is different than my issue. Hopefully there is an easy way to fix it, without adding things again piecemeal. My co-workers can see their complete set of projects in solution explorer so it must be a corruption in my workspace.
Solution 1:[1]
I had to copy out changed files in my workspace, fix my permissions/ownership on my directory (it was no owner instead of me), re-do the mapped drive the workspace was on, re-do the shortcut to the Visual Studio project (even though it was supposed to theoretically be the same place I mapped), re-pull the project down, and copy my changes in again. At this point Visual Studio had the missing solutions in it again so I could set startup project and run the debugger. I'm not sure how the ownership/permissions got messed up. I think at one point the other office had a server go down, and maybe my permissions/ownership got mixed up then. I'm not sure why VS wasn't showing the missing projects, but it's fixed after doing the above.
Solution 2:[2]
Open your ".sln" project file using Notepad. In this file you can observe listed projects like below
Project("{FAE04EC0-301F-11D3-BF4B-00C04F79EFBC}") = "test.myProject.Data", "test.myProject.Data\test.myProject.csproj", "{6D7F7B84-F3BD-4A19-A069-D144C345B887}"
EndProject
Please add if there any missing projects. If you have old back up or co-workers file, Just copy and paste missing projects to this file. In my case it works !!
Solution 3:[3]
close vs , delete .vs folder then open vs again. it works for me.
Solution 4:[4]
I found that re-adding the existing project to the solution worked for me!
Solution 5:[5]
I had the same issue where my colleague saw 1 more project on his computer.
I deleted my .sln file and got the exact same version as he. Problem was still the same.
Solution was: I had an unloaded project. Apparently this is safed in a local user setting file (probably the .suo file). I looked for the unloaded project and loaded it again.
Solution 6:[6]
- Close the VStudio entire project, go to the main project folder and click on the .sln file to load the entire project agian.
- go to solution explorer see which are having (unload), right click and load project with dependencies
- sometimes check if the project startup has changed, if changed just right click on the related project and set as project startup
Solution 7:[7]
This .sln file structure breakdown offers a great insight on how projects are able to be found and populated into the project hierarchy. My .sln file had lost all its project persistence blocks and thus I had 0 projects under my solution. I copied the blocks from a a previous git commit and this fixed it. I still don't know why the blocks disappeared or the whole .sln file changed
Solution 8:[8]
I had the same issue. After opening the Visual Studio in Administrator mode it started to work.
Search for VS->Right click-> "Run as administrator"
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| Solution | Source |
|---|---|
| Solution 1 | Michele |
| Solution 2 | Thinira |
| Solution 3 | funbrain9 |
| Solution 4 | Jennifer |
| Solution 5 | kabeleced |
| Solution 6 | suntosh aqula |
| Solution 7 | Rachier Alal |
| Solution 8 | NKA |