Cannot resolve symbol issue with resharper but code compiles

Question

I know this has been asked before, but there was no solution to the problem, and it was last year, so I thought maybe someone has found something to solve this by now. I am using VS2010 with SP1. before installing the SP1 there was no problem. if I uninstal re# it works fine. I have an ASP.Net website and some other projects. The classes from the other projects are not recognized, resharper suggests using the other project, so I do so, it puts it up at the usings, then the using also gets a "cannot resolve symbol". I have tried the suggestions they gave in 2011 here but nothing. if I delete the _Resharper. and restart vs, it will work for 5 seconds, then all red again...

hope someone found a solution to this since then...thanks

Edit: I have noticed it does this with Web Services

Excoriate

Resharper “can not resolve symbol” even when project builds – Chaing

Answer 1

Although this question is rather old it happended to me today. I solved it by going to menu Tools -> Options -> Resharper

Click on Options and press Clear Caches button followed by Save.

Then just click on the Suspend Now followed by Resume Now button to restart Resharper and your code should be ok again.

EDIT: happened to me again. Clearing caches helped. The only thing changed is that "Clear caches" is hidden under General tab in resharper options.

Midcourse

I cannot test it anymore since I have changed computers since then and not working on the project where this happened anymore...but waiting for people with the same issue to confirm the solution. – Excoriate

R# 8.2: I can confirm that this is the fix that I was looking for. Nice job, guys! Thanks. – Fervidor

This works for me, but when I restart Studio I have the same problem again. Is there a permanent solution? – Revivalist

Answer 2

I was having the same problem with one of my projects. I reported the issue to JetBrains and they requested a VS solution which has the problem.

So, I decided to spend a few hours trying to narrow down the problem as much as possible. I found out that the issue is related to a tool I use which strips out information from .DLLs.

If I don’t strip the .DLLs, Resharper works fine without showing any “cannot resolve symbol” errors. However, If I do strip the .dll, then ReSharper starts to show these “cannot resolve symbol” errors. In both cases, Visual Studio compiles the program and the program runs fine.

I am working with JetBrains to get the issue resolved.

In the mean time, I am able to workaround the problem by using versions of my .DLLs which do not have any information stripped out of them.

Nittygritty

Answer 3

1. in visual studio, Tools -> Options -> Resharper, Press Suspend Now
2. delete the folder _ReSharper.*
3. Tools -> Options -> Resharper, Press Resume Now

Celerity