Visual Studio 2015 Typescript auto list members stopped working

Question

I'm working on an Angular2 project; all of a sudden the auto list members for typescript files stopped working. Obviously I realized that after a while and I'm not able to say what caused the problem.

I tried the uninstall/reinstall Visual Studio, with no result. I'd say it's not some project configuration, because opening the same solution on a brand new installation of Visual Studio on another laptop, intellisense works perfectly.

The version of Visual Studio is 2015 update 3. The version of typescript is 2.1.4.

Is there some kind of log file I could read?

Answer 1

Like you said, this issue appears recently, did you install any update under windows update or VS install any extensions or updates? If so, you can try to remove them one by one to locate this issue.

Since this same solution works fine in another VS and laptop, this issue should have caused by the VS or computer which has this issue, you can have a try the following to troubleshot this issue:

1. Run VS using different commands, open an administrative CMD window and navigate to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE and run the commands as below:

• devenv /resetuserdata: clean up the old user data

• devenv /resetsettings: reset the customized setting to the default setting, if you want to keep the current setting, you need to export it before resetting it, please go to Tool-Import and Export Settings…

After each command, reopen VS and check it again.

2. Perform a clean boot follow the steps from here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/929135 then re-run the VS as administrator and check this issue again.

[Edit]

The workaround from Gio: Finally I fixed that! Just replaced the "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TypeScript" folder with the one on the working laptop.