visual studio 2012 open files disappear

Question

When I am working in Visual Studio 2012 and debugging, making changes, and debugging after a while, eventually my open documents disappear. They are still open, apparently (I'd add a screenshot but I can't yet), but going to Window > (a file) and trying to select it does nothing. I have to choose Close All Documents (fine if there's only one or two - but the very next time I debug I'm back to the same state) or restart the application. Is anyone else experiencing this? I'm wondering if it's an extension that is causing the problem.

Installed extensions:

• Advanced Installer 9.6.1
• Microsoft Web Developer Tools NuGet Package
• Manager Productivity Power Tools
• Spell Checker
• Team Foundation Server Power Tools 2012
• Telerik WebUI VSExtensions
• Telerik Windows Phone VSExtensions
• Telerik WinForms VSEXtensions
• TFS Pocess Template Editor
• TFS Team Collaboration
• TFS Work Item Type Designer
• Visual Studio 2012 Color Theme Editor
• Visual Studio Extensions for Windows Library for JavaScript
• VSCommands for Visual Studio 2012 Web Essentials 2012
• ReSharper 7.1.1

Answer 1

I had the same problem, but I didn't have VSCommands. Instead, I removed a couple of VS 2010 (yes 2010) components recently installed. For now, everything seems to work. (There might be some versioning confusion, so 2012 picked some wrong 2010 components. Just a guess...)