Why does the "Navigate To" feature stops working in Visual Studio 2010

Question

I have been a fan of the new "Navigate To" feature that was released with Visual Studio 2010 since I saw Scott Hanselman using it in one of his presentation.

For some unknown reason, it randomly stops working.

I hit "Ctrl + ,", type what I am looking for and then nothing happens.

It seems to wait for something and the window shows no progression in the research.

The only way I found to fix this is to restart Visual Studio and wait for the problem to happen again.

Does anyone have any idea why Visual Studio is behaving like this and how I can fix this?

Answer 1

I got this working again by uninstalling ReShaper. It fixed some other things like the solution wide search aswell. I'm not so happy about the solution though...

Answer 2

Any chance you're using resharper, powercommands, or productivity power tools?

I suspect the issue is related to one of those (I have the same issue), but since it's difficult to reproduce, it's hard to test that.

Answer 3

I got this working by simply selecting an item from the Search Items dropdown. Once you do that, the search starts working again as expected.