VS2017 MVC project wont open from .sln but Team Explorer works fine
I'm working on a project which creates large XML files of 800k plus. I was having memory issues so I changed my IIS option in Tools>Options to 64 bit which helped. The problem worsened when my project hung and wasn't responding so I closed it forcibly. When I tried to re-open from the project .sln it told me it was incompatible even though the Team Explorer showed my latest changes as below.
It produced a Migration Report which looked like this
The project folder layout looks like this
I've tried running old backed up folders but VS2017 always says they are not recognised and tries to migrate them, some are only three or four days old! Has this reset broken my Visual Studio, do I need to re-install? I don't really have the time to mess around with this but if I can't restore from GIT/Team Explorer or backups, i don't know how to get my project running again. It seems ridiculous that Team Explorer shows my latest changes but Solution explorer is blank!
Team explorer is only concerned with files on disk, it isn't trying to run anything. Solution explorer needs to open the solution file, read the contents, and interpret them in some way. It is failing to do this. This is why the former is working, when the latter isnt.