My project in Visual Studio is Read Only. What did I do?

c# visual-studio readonly
Bernard Larouche picture Bernard Larouche · Apr 5, 2010 · Viewed 48.8k times · Source

I must have done something wrong. I have a C# project in Visual Studio 2008. All of a sudden I see a lock on my classes and when I hover the class names on the top tab I see the class name as : C:\Myprojects\Oder.cs[Read Only] !

Has something weird like that happened to you before?

Answer

Lasse Christiansen picture Lasse Christiansen · Feb 1, 2015

In my case it was a ReSharper 9.0/9.1 related issue. After clearing the ReSharper cache, I was able to edit files in my solution again.

Clearing the ReSharper cache can be done here: ReSharper -> Options -> Environment -> General and click: Clear Caches and restart your visual studio.

Clearing the ReSharper cache

(The image is contained within the first of the linked JetBrains articles).

JetBrains instructions:

Ultimate Guide to Speeding Up ReSharper (and Visual Studio) - Performance degradation after ReSharper upgrade

ReSharper Online Documentation

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