“Go To Definition” in Visual Studio only brings up the Metadata

Question

I am working in a Web Project in Visual Studio 2008. When I hit F12 (or right-click and select Go To Definition) Visual Studio is consistently going to the Metadata file in

Answer 1

Symptom:

Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate was repeatedly failing to find references to functions, #defines, includes, etc when using the "Go To Definition" or "Go To Declaration" or "Find All References" features - oddly Intellisense was working.

Fix:

1. Close Visual Studio
2. Delete (rename if you want to be conservative) the solution .sdf file
3. Reopen Visual Studio

The .sdf file will automatically be rebuilt by parsing the include files in your solution