Lost intelisense in web.config and other xml files

[jmeckley]

This isn't related to c#, but there isn't a VS forum.
some time last week I lost my color coding and intelisense in my app/web.config files and NHibernate mapping files. instead of the red/blue text coloring with XSD support of nodes/attributes I get black text on white background. it treats it like a simple text file. I ran a repair on VS today but that didn't change anything.

I have installed MS patches for windows XP, but the problem occurred before that. Has anyone else encountered this problem? If so how did you fix it?

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

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[PatrickIRL]

Jason, try this ...

http://weblogs.asp.net/scottgu/archive/2005/12/02/432077.aspx

Patrick

 

[jmeckley]

Patrick, I read through Scott's blog, but no luck. I didn't have the namespace in my config file. although I'm wondering if it's not stuck somewhere else. I'll keep looking.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

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[jmeckley]

I found a fix! Velocity Reviews had a post on the same issue. Allen Chen suggested running [tt]devenv /setup[/tt] from [tt]start>run[/tt]. that did the trick although I'm not sure why.

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

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faq732-7259