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Visual Studio "Track Active Item in Solution Explorer" does not work

In VS 2019 I select Tools - Options - Projects and solutions - General and check "Track Active Item in Solution Explorer". However, this does not work for my C# solution. If I select a file in the editor, it does not auto-select in Solution Explorer (sometimes the Solution Explorer scrolls so that the selected item is moved to to the top of this list but this does not always occur. Also, the selected item is never highlighted). I have re-installed Visual Studio 2019 from scratch. I am using Version 16.10.4. Thanks for any help you can give.

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Is it highlighted if you unselect “Track Active Item in Solution Explorer”, then go to a file and click the “Sync with Active Document” button (circle arrows) in Solution Explorer? I think that this feature is convenient too.

How do you select a file in the editor?


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Thanks for your prompt reply.

I unselect "Track Active Item in Solution Explorer" and clicked the "Sync with Active Document" and that works fine.

I select the file in the editor by clicking on the tab with the file name.

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