Refactor menu option not available

Question

_{Friday, February 8, 2013 1:13 PM | 1 vote}

I've installed Visual Studio 2012 Professional.
The 'REFACTOR' menu is not visible ...

Does someone know how to enable this feature ? 

Thanks a lot,

All replies (7)

_{Friday, February 8, 2013 3:33 PM ✅Answered}

Close your existing visual studio instance, open project with new instance,make sure you have atleast one .cs file is open.Then check for the Refactor menu

Regards, Vinod Shalgar Please remember to mark the replies as answers if they help you.

_{Friday, February 8, 2013 1:42 PM | 2 votes}

are you not able to see following menu ?

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_{Friday, February 8, 2013 1:50 PM}

Visual Studio 2012 provides option of Quick Launch, through which you can search if you have refactor menu or not.

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_{Friday, February 8, 2013 2:29 PM | 1 vote}

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply.

The Edit menu does not contain the refactor item.
Last item in the list is 'intellisence'

Could it be the refactor is only available in C# projects ?

Best regards

_{Friday, February 8, 2013 4:38 PM | 1 vote}

Hi Vinod,

The refactor menu is available in a C# project. I conclude this feature is not available in VB.NET.

Thanks for the tip.
Steven,

_{Monday, August 12, 2013 8:33 AM | 1 vote}

I had the situation where one of my projects was set to x86 and the others to AnyCpu and the solution was Debug/x86. I had a warning in the output about this. When I switched it all to the same (AnyCpu) in the Configuration Manager the Refactor menu item came back

_{Monday, January 13, 2014 12:35 AM}

As I use Resharper, so I always go to the menu Resharper > Refactor. The native Refactor disappears on the Menu bar, I guess it has been overrided by Resharper. Here might be another possibility for the answer for someone who is using Resharper as well.