Visual Studio debugger doesn't recognize any usings

Question

When I'm debugging in Visual Studio, I can no longer evaluate any static that isn't fully qualified. Hovering over the field, the watch window, and the immediate window all are broken.

I get the error the name ___ does not exist in the current context.

I can fix it if I specify the full namespace in the watch, but this can't work for extensions methods or if I just want to hover over the item in code.

It's like the debugger no longer sees any of the usings that are in the current context. Every now and then it will work, but most of the time I have to type the full namespace for the debugger to find whatever I want to evaluate.

I was hoping VS2015 would fix it, but it doesn't.

Answer 1

Super late reply, but as of sometime around the beginning of 2018 Fody no longer causes this problem. It was a Cecil issue and that was fixed with Cecil 0.10.

Answer 2

This was due to Fody. We stopped using Fody and it fixed the issue.