Plain C# Editor in Visual Studio 2012 (No intellis

Question

I just installed visual studio 2012 in my machine, I previously had visual studio 2012 RC which I uninstalled before. The installation was successful, but after I open a project the C# editor is not working, is just like a plain text editor like this:

I've tried repairing it, uninstalling it completely and then installing again, but no success.

Anyone have an idea?

I don't know if it is related, but I'm also getting this error sometimes when creating a new project or when opening an existing one:

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

If you have any RC version it might be the cause.

I had this issue with Visual Studio 2012 Developer Edition. I later found that i have Express Edition RC, i removed it and it solved the problem.

And then i applied eggie's solution

Answer 2

Try deleting:

• %appdata%\Roaming\Microsoft\Microsoft Visual Studio
• %appdata%\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio
• %appdata%\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio

This should erase all of your visual studio settings (from all versions) and restore it to default, in case some old settings were left behind by the RC that the RTM doesn't like.

Edit:

Also you want to remove

• My Documents/Visual Studio 2012/Settings