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I have a Visual Studio 2010 C++ project which was copied from another visual studio project and renamed. The project compiles fine and works. However recently, I went to the Resource View to edit some dialogs and the window is completely empty. I can't remember if I went there since I copied the project or not:
Any ideas on how I can get this back? I'm thinking there is some cache somewhere?
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I should add that this solution is a multi-project solution and normally in the resource view even if a given project does not have resource files you will still see a "folder" for the project in the resource view tree view. There are no "folders" for any of the projects in the solution.
I should also add that other solutions that I open in visual studio will display the resource view fine.
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Any managed resources you want to edit must be linked resources and Visual Studio resource editors don't support editing embedded resources. To view a managed resource in a resource editor, in Solution Explorer, double-click the resource, for example, Bitmap1. bmp, and the resource opens in the appropriate editor.
RC files mostly belong to Visual Studio by Microsoft. An RC file is a resource script used by compilers for applications written in various programming languages. A resource script (RC) file contains information such as source file references, version information, and identifiers for an application.
A resource file is a text file with the extension . rc. The file can use single-byte, double-byte, or Unicode characters. The syntax and semantics for the RC preprocessor are similar to those of the Microsoft C/C++ compiler. However, RC supports a subset of the preprocessor directives, defines, and pragmas in a script.
A resource is a text file that allows the compiler to manage objects such as pictures, sounds, mouse cursors, dialog boxes, etc. Microsoft Visual Studio makes creating a resource file particularly easy by providing the necessary tools in the same environment used to program.
It might be because your Browsing/Navigation Database is disabled.
Check the current setting under: Tools -> Options -> Text Editor -> C++ -> Advanced. "Disable Database" should be false.
This is a bug as far as I know, and they said they are working on the problem.
More Info: http://connect.microsoft.com/VisualStudio/feedback/details/535971/solution-resource-view-empty-when-option-disable-database-c-is-set-to-true
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I had similar problem that I solved with reloading projects in the solution (unload projects and then reload all projects).
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I had the same issue today, and my class browser was also empty. I fixed it by deleting the ipch directory and the sdf file from the solution's directory. Visual Studio reinitialized the intellisense databases, and the view were back.
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