How to recreate or restore csproj file

Question

My csproj file is suddenly become empty due to which project is not getting loaded in visual studio. How to recreate or restore csproj file

Gurpreet Arora · Answer

Open a fresh copy of Visual Studio Create a project in a different location of the same type as B  with the same name. Close that copy of Visual Studio Copy the newly created B.csproj file to the directory where all your source for B is overwriting the existing B.csproj file (but take a copy of it just incase you need it!). Load Visual Studio and open Solution A . You'll note that the project doesn't contain any of the files / references you'd expect and will probably contain a broken reference to Class1.cs or any other files that were added to the new project file when Visual Studio created it. Now: Make sure Project B is selected in Solution Explorer and click the Show All Files icon. It's the one that has a picture of 3 files overlaying each other in it to the left of the Refresh icon. You'll be able to see all the content of your project but greyed out. Select each file/folder you want to add back right click and choose Include In Project. Assuming there's nothing too complicated about your project you should only now need to re-add any References and it should compile and run. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/dotnet-restore

Nabin Agarwala · Answer

Thanks bro solved it

Rajanikant Hawaldar · Answer

if you haven't been using version control you may not have a copy anywhere. look in your cached files for vs and use version control

Salman Beg · Answer

May be someone accidentally changed the .csproj file. If you have a backup of that solution then take it and use it. See this link for more https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11171322/how-can-i-recover-a-corrupt-csproj-file-in-visual-studio-2010