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In Visual Studio 2015, every now and then my "Search Solution Explorer" is disabled. Doesn't seem to be any rhyme or reason to it, and often restarting Visual Studio or loading a different project does not help. I don't see anyone else on the internet complaining about this. Anyone run into this and have a fix?

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I do have Resharper installed, and perhaps that's causing problems, though I believe I've run into this before I ever installed Resharper.

Alternatively, is there a third party extension I can install in Visual Studio 2015 to search by filename?

Mikael Dúi Bolinder
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Renaming the .suo file worked for a colleague just now.

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Delete the ".vs/projectname" folder from the "solutionname.sln" directory and restart visual studio should work.

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  • This worked perfectly for me, many thanks! I think this is the correct answer fro "newer" Visual Studio versions. Since I have no ".suo" file. Visual Studio 2015 here :) – Christian Müller Mar 26 '18 at 16:45