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Are you unable to type in Visual Studio?

by Siddharth Pandey · Published January 10, 2016 · Updated March 17, 2016

A sad lad

Today I was writing some jasmine tests using my favourite IDE – Visual Studio and everything was going well. All of a sudden, I was unable to type in Visual Studio (VS). At first, I checked my external keyboard followed by mac’s built-in keyboard which were working as expected in notepad and on mac but not in VS!!!

To solve any VS related issue, I just restart it and maybe also restart my Windows. Even that didn’t helped! Later on, I came to know via googling that Resharper is the main culprit causing this strange issue. Something may have gone wrong where Resharper’s cache was affected and it just causes this issue.

To solve this behaviour: Select Resharper Menu option => Options => Envrionment => General => Click ‘Clear Caches’ button => Hit Save

When you clear the cache, Resharper says that caches will be cleared after VS restart. So, restart it and if you are lucky, it will now respond to your keyboard inputs.

Tags: Resharper Visual-Studio

Siddharth Pandey

Siddharth Pandey is a Software Engineer with thorough hands-on commercial experience & exposure to building enterprise applications using Agile methodologies. Siddharth specializes in building, managing on-premise, cloud based real-time standard, single page web applications (SPAs). He has successfully delivered applications in health-care, finance, insurance, e-commerce sectors for major brands in the UK. Other than programming, he also has experience of managing teams, trainer, actively contributing to the IT community by sharing his knowledge using Stack Overflow, personal website & video tutorials.