I was using Visual Studio 2013 Premium, it crashed, and when I restarted it the Search Solution Explorer had stopped functioning correctly:
- It fails to find any file if you type in the exact file name
- It fails to find any static files e.g. HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.
- It fails to find any configuration files e.g. Web.config
It seems to still find some files on a partial match, but not all files that you'd expect it to match e.g. if I create a new MVC web application and search for Account I'd
expect it to find AccountController.cs and AccountControllerTest.csbut
it only finds the latter.
Some further info:
- If I start VS 2013 in safe mode Search Solution Explorer works fine without any problems
- If I manually disable or uninstall the extensions I'm using and start VS normally, the problem with Search Solution Explorer reappears
- I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling VS 2013, but the problem still persists.
- I've run devenv /resetuserdata, then restarted VS 2013 without signing in, and the problem persists.
Has anyone got any ideas how to get Search Solution Explorer working again?