I had to reinstall all my development tools after a hard drive failure and I'm having a problem with Visual Studio.
I had a bunch of //TODO: items scattered throughout my projects and I can't get them to show up in my Task List under the User Tasks. I restarted Visual Studio to no effect, then I checked the tokens in the Task List settings and TODO is listed.
Any idea on how I can get them to be listed again? I don't remember having to change any settings last time I installed VS to get this to work.
By default, TODO comments are only shown in the task list for currently opened files. Visual Studio doesn't automatically search through the entire solution.
Over time, many users end up with most of a project's files open most of the time (at least for moderately sized projects) because Visual Studio remembers these preferences in a *.suo file. Users generally don't close the files, and so open files tend to accumulate. The *.suo files themselves are not typically kept in source control, and so when rebuilding your workstation everything is not opened up right away anymore and the tasks won't show.