Where is Visual Studio's NCB file located?

Question

I have a suspicion that my Visual Studio Intellisense has stopped working. I have read that this may be the cause of the NCB file being corrupted and needs to be deleted. I have searched for the NCB file throughout my computer but no search results have popped up. Where can I manually locate this file?

Answer 1

If you have one: it should be in the same directory as your solution (.sln) file, with the same basename.

If your solution is C:\projects\acme.sln then it should be C:\projects\acme.ncb.

But: Starting with Visual Studio 2010, it no longer uses the .ncb system. Instead, it creates a file with a .sdf extension.

So you should probably be looking for C:\projects\acme.sdf.

See IntelliSense/Browsing options in VC++ 2010 for more information.