Visual Studio won't update properties of my Data Source

Question

I am using my class "Invoice" as a Data Source. But after adding more properties to it, Visual Studio refuses to refresh the data source and I can't find the new properties in my data source.

Tried restarting project, deleting and adding object as datasource again. Did not work.

Solution 1

Problem was Intellisense going out of date due to changes in the Data Source.

Solution was to simply to rebuild the project.

Solution 2

Are you using any source control ? also, .datasource file gets created under Properties folder, try to remove and re-add the object by opening Data Sources tab.

also your new properties in Invoice should have access modifiers (at least { get;} ) otherwise it might not show up AFAIK.

Solution 3

That problem ocurrs in report designer where use data source object, when i add or remove a property in my class and i refresh the data source in data panel on report data sources, this don't show last changes. I resolved adding reference to Microsoft.CShart assembly. You could try this to resolve you problem.

Solution 4

OMGKurtNilsen is right:

You don't need to delete and re-create the datasource - a project rebuild will do!

I tested it with a datasource in a VS 2010 project, that takes its data from a simple C# object.

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Comments

[AJG85]

Sounds like your intellisense was out of date. When odd things like this happen the first thing I do is a rebuild.

[OMGKurtNilsen]

No error. Just won't show the new properties even after refreshing.

[atrljoe]

Are you getting an error? If So what is the error message?

[Travis J]

Visual Studio 2010 requires the project to be cleaned and rebuilt every time the data model changes for intellisense to work.

[Bill Sambrone]

Had a similar situation with VS2012. The cleaning was required, then the rebuild did the trick.

[Elan Hasson]

In VS2013 Update 3 A rebuild wasn't enough. I had to restart VS.

[ToastyMallows]

I'll second @ElanHasson, needed to rebuild and restart all VS instances.