The current C# / C# Dev Kit documentation appears to miss an important discoverability step for showing C# project details / Solution Explorer in the Explorer pane.
Observed behavior:
- In current VS Code on macOS, the reliable way to show or hide the C# project details section in Explorer is via the "..." overflow menu in the Explorer title bar.
- Toggling it from there enables/disables the C# project details / Solution Explorer section.
What is confusing:
- A lot of existing guidance and web answers suggest right-clicking the left Activity Bar icon area to show or hide views.
- That advice does not help with this specific C# Explorer section, because the relevant control is the Explorer pane "..." menu, not the Activity Bar context menu.
Requested docs update:
- In the C# Dev Kit / project management docs, explicitly mention that if Solution Explorer or C# project details are not visible, open the Explorer view and use the "..." menu in the Explorer title bar to enable the C# section.
- If there are screenshots or walkthroughs showing the older discovery path, update them to reflect the current UI.
Likely affected docs:
- docs/csharp/project-management.md
- potentially other C# docs that assume users can already see Solution Explorer
Environment:
- VS Code version: 1.120.0
- Commit: 0958016b2af9f09bb4257e0df4a95e2f90590f9f
- OS: macOS
- Architecture: arm64
Note:
- This issue was created by GitHub Copilot on behalf of the user.
- Copilot details: GitHub Copilot, using GPT-5.4.
This is similar to how the Java docs already explain that some project views are toggled from the Explorer title bar "..." menu.
The current C# / C# Dev Kit documentation appears to miss an important discoverability step for showing C# project details / Solution Explorer in the Explorer pane.
Observed behavior:
What is confusing:
Requested docs update:
Likely affected docs:
Environment:
Note:
This is similar to how the Java docs already explain that some project views are toggled from the Explorer title bar "..." menu.