Visual Studio 2013 Solution Explorer Not Showing Files

Question

I am trying to start a side-project to learn some MVC coding.

I am having some weird behaviour when I have reopened my MVC project.

The classes I created "Backpacker" and "Booking" are not showing up in the solution explorer. I have tried pressing the "Show all files" button, but this does not help.

As you can see in the screenshots, I have the class file open, and the path is pointing to the current project. Also you can see that my classes are in the same directory as the other classes that are visible in the models folder.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening? It is hugely frustrating and I feel like maybe I have not configured something correctly?

Thanks in advance

//EDIT//

Darn it - I tried the "Show all files" once more and this time it seemed to "almost" work... see the newest screenshot.

However Visual Studio is still obviously not connecting them to the project correctly.... does anyone know why? or how to fix/prevent this in future?

Cheers.

Answer 1

Alright so this problem was my own fault. I overlooked something I had done without realising what was actually happening.

When I added my new classes through solution explorer, that was all done fine. However When I closed visual studio and had the following prompt:

I clicked "no" because I usually work with XSLT which doesn't require saving the solution for my changes to be kept.

When you add references to new class files in your project, the project needs to be saved or you will lose this data (duhhh).

To fix this issue I did the following:

And then made sure I SAVED THE SOLUTION changes.

Thanks for your help - hopefully this may be of use to other people.