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I have read this, but it was old enough to solve the problem (the bot says, I must update to latest version).
This happen randomly, as I don't know the reason. Here is a quick explanation of what happening:
This issue sometimes can be solved by reopening visual studio, but not all the time.
What is the reason this is happening?
This behavior is annoying. Any fix/workaround to this?
Edit: Visual Studio throws me an error message box saying "...file under source code control...", but I don't use git.
Probably it is because the project is under some source code control.
I am sure it's not...
I see a new issue (within this issue), when I delete some folders in my project, the folder still listed in .vcxproj, not removed..
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Hello, are you using the latest version of VS2022? I tested on my side and cannot reproduce your issue.
If you create other types of projects, will you have the same problem?
You can try to repair your VS through Visual Studio Installer > More > Repair.
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I'm also getting this issue today. It started when I tried to delete a file. It deleted the file physically but the UI didn't update, left it grayed out with a red x. Closing VS and reopening fixed that, it was no gone, but now if I try to add the name file name it won't work. I can't rename a file to that filename. I'm also seeing that I can 'sometimes' rename but not always. I renamed a file to test this out which worked, now I can't rename it back again.
This release (for .NET 7) is supper buggy, its corrupted my solution, renames don't work. Intellisense isn't always working. I have to restart VS several times a day to 'fix' the issues. Unfortunately, restarting isn't fixing the renaming issue.
Solution: delete the .vs (hidden) folder at the root of your solution. Seems the contents of the directory have been corrupted.
Your solution to delete the .vs folder seems to be work. I also want to know the cause, do you know it?
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It is probable you RUN the project and the debugg is still "active". Stop it and you will can change the name of a file or a folder. If you close and reopen will work because this cause to stop the debug.
Ir is probably because you "run" the project and the debugg s still active. Stop it and you will can change the name of a folder or a fie.
@Claudia Cecilia Rossi this isn't the issue as I and most likely others shut VS down to resolve it. I believe VS is corrupting the data in the hidden .vs directory.
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In case anyone comes here with a 'class not registered', 'DISP_E_MEMBERNOTFOUND' HRESULT 0x80020003 error, deleting the '.vs' directory and reloading the solution resolved the problem for me. I was unable to rename files, did a repair, two reinstalls, a version update, and the only thing that solved the issue was deleting the '.vs' directory.
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Had this issue, sometimes I could rename/delete folders/files and sometimes not. Turns out it was due to the app still running. Just stopped the app and immediately the options to rename/delete folders appeared again (when right clicking on the explorer window.