The contents of a folder in the VS 2022 Solution Explorer no longer show

Question

I can no longer open the reports folder within the solution explorer to view and select its contents even though the contents do exist. How do I fix this?

Answer 1

This looks like a VB Winforms app?? What type of files are in the Reports folder?

Did this suddenly happen or did something change in the system? If so then what?

It is possible the files were removed from the solution so go to the Show All Files option in the toolbar at the top of Solution Explorer and show all the files. Then right click each file that is missing and select the option to include in the project. Then you can disable showing all files.

Answer 2

Same thing happened to me today. I'm building an ASP Core application. Windows Explorer shows all of the files but in Visual Studio 2022 solution explorer, it shows only some files that are seen in Windows explorer. I tried clicking the Show All Files button but no luck.