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Reopen Documents on Solution load not working since upgrade to 16.9

Art Hansen 566 Reputation points
2021-03-13T12:46:46.1+00:00

Since upgrading to 16.9 VS is not reopening on Solution load the files that were open at shutdown (I always use File -> Exit).

I've verified "Reopen Documents on Solution load" is checked in Options and the solution's .vs folder has been deleted (and successfully rebuilt automatically by VS).

While my solution is small (only about 60 files) it is still quite irritating to start a VS session reopening a number of related winform designer & code documents plus the supporting class library and sql/textfile connection documents. In addition to being a waste of time I have come rely on the auto relopening to immediately refresh my memory regarding exactly what I was working on at shutdown.

Any ideas in addition to what I've already tried will be much appreciated.
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  1. Art Hansen 566 Reputation points
    2021-03-18T08:21:41.31+00:00

    @Dylan Zhu-MSFT Using the built-in VS problem reporting (Thanx Dylan) I discovered there have been over a 128,000 reported incidents of this bug.

    According the incident being worked (1317364) this is supposed to be fixed in version 16.10 which is currently classified as Pending Preview Release. Not being privy to the release roadmap I don't know the target date for pushing out a generally available 16.10.

    Until that release is available the only partially viable work-around is to close any "tear-off tab" windows prior to Exiting the solution/VS. That will at least enable re-loading of docs in the main VS window on the next solution load.

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  1. Art Hansen 566 Reputation points
    2022-09-24T12:42:56.827+00:00

    OP here - I'm now on VS 2022 & had this problem recur yesterday morning. so the problem still exists in 2022. When I started VS it hung at the loading progress bar and had to close VS via Task Manager. 2nd time starting I'd lost most of the open files from the workspace, the horizontal window divider in the main window and the primary "tear away" window.

    I updated VS to the most recent version -- 17.3.4 -- and rebuilt my workspace (I typically have 30-35 files open). After exiting and restarting VS everything loaded as expected This morning everything again loaded fine.

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  2. Ralf Ellersiek 0 Reputation points
    2023-02-23T06:50:50.8066667+00:00

    I still have this problem too.

    It occures by random and VS (2022, enterprise, 17.4.4) didn't hung or crashed.

    The loaded solution is perfectly loaded, only the last time opened files are not reopen.

    And yes: I've verified "Reopen Documents on Solution load" is checked

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