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After accepting the merge with Visual Studio 2022 (pro), using statements got deleted.
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Hello @Gourik Kumar Bora ,
Welcome to Microsoft Q&A forum.
Were the using statements removed, maybe by mistake or by other developers before you merged the code, and caused it to be looked like it got deleted?
Besides, are you using any version control? Like Azure DevOps, Git?
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Same problem here, using git version 2.35.3.windows.1 and Visual Studio Enterprise 2022 17.5.1.
Whenever Azure DevOps warns me of conflicts on my PRs, I will merge the PR branch with main locally (I prefer that to the online merge editor). Sometimes ( = "probably every time" but I have not kept track) accepting the merge will straight up remove all using statements from the conflicting file. Compiler errors will only appear after a solution rebuild.
Thankfully most of the time they're just a "Compare with Unmodified" and copy/paste away but in the mean time it is suuuuuuuuuuper annoying. It made me paranoid, now I compulsively have to rebuild and rerun tests several times before I'm confident about my merge commit!
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Can confirm this is also happening for me
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Same here. VS2022 17.4.4
I'm pretty sure it's EVERY merge I do locally.
Possible connection (just an idea): I have cleanup set to run on Save. My cleanup removes unused using statements. Unfortunately, these are all in use, but maybe when we Accept it from the merge editor, it cannot tell that they are in use. I'd be willing to wager that's the problem. Would really like to see a fix to this, as I don't want to turn off that feature. My OCD half kind of loves it.
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Hi,
I have the same issue and it is really annoying. Did someone file an issue for this? It needs to be fixed asap.
Share the thread link: Code cleanup tool mistakenly identifies all the using statements as unused and then removes them after accepting merge result in the merge editor. reported by @Zitong Yang on Developer Community here, for better tracking this issue.
Currently, this issue has been fixed and pending release(Fixed in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.8 Preview 3).
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It is definitely related to the code cleanup feature in Visual Studio. After I remove the "Remove unnecessary imports or usings" fixer from my code cleanup profile, the problem is gone. However, I don't want to do that because this fixer is useful in other scenarios. It seems that the code cleanup tool identifies those using statements as unused by mistake after accepting the merge result.
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Yep, I'm seeing this too. Pretty disastrous, really. I do a merge from Branch A to Branch B and using statements from dozens of files are removed, meaning that the app suddenly won't compile. Seems to leave me with two non-options: Don't do the merge, or manually re-add the usingstatements to every file.
Glad it's not just me. This is a horrendous bug/issue. Turned off Code Cleanup for now, based on the answer from @Zitong Yang . I don't know if complaining about it here is going to help - are the Visual Studio devs aware of this issue?