Visual Studio 2013 Dataset Designer Does Not Match Code

Question

I am having a problem with the Dataset Designer in VS2013. I don't know how it happened but when I go to view a Dataset in the designer, a ton of my queries and stored procedures are missing. It's almost like the designer rolled back to defaults or something. I check the Designer.cs file and everything is there but now I can't use the designer at all. I'm afraid that one of these times when closing the designer I'll accidentally click and hit a key when the prompt comes up asking if I want to save changes, and poof all my hard work is over written and destroyed(I have backups but still...). Here is a question that seemed similar to my issue: VS2008 DataSet Wizard doesn't match tables for updating

The problem for this poster was a table got renamed or something. I haven't renamed any of the tables as far as I know. Has anyone run into this before? How do I refresh the designer so it reflects the current content in my code(Designer.cs file) like queries and stored procedures? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Answer 1

I found the solution to this but have been so slammed at work I haven't posted till right now. Here is a link to a blog post describing how to clear the visual studio cache. PLEASE BE CAUTIOUS and read carefully. This worked for me and hopefully you too!