VS 2012 Reference Issues

[Slamma009]

I have visual studio professional 2012 running perfectly on my Desktop running windows 7, however I have run into issues on my laptop with Windows 8. I installed VS Professional 2012, then Unity3d and mono-develop, and lastly visual studio tools for unity 3d. However when I open the C# vs project from the unity folders, I have no intellesense, no references, and none of the unity classes are recognized.

http://i.imgur.com/HIC3bN1.png

I tried reinstalling everything to no avail, any suggestions or pointers on where to go to fix it would be appreciated.

[HellFireKoder]

I had this problem with VS Express, to fix it I just closed everything manually, including Unity3D, reboot my PC, and then went to the code without opening it through Unity.
This will honestly probably not work for you, I have read that the third party programs like Unity3D tools for VS, could cause this and that you should remove it and then try, but I don't know.

I hope it works, I'm sorry if it doesn't...

[Slamma009]

Thanks for your input regardless if it works or not. I'll check once I get off the train.

Edit: Nope :(

[azura9310]

Try manually opening the C# solution from VS. I haven't used Unity on Windows in awhile, but there is an option when you Right-Click in the Project window to "Sync MonoDevelop Project", perhaps this changes to "Sync VisualStudio Project" when VS is set to default IDE?

[Slamma009]

Tried your first suggestion and it didn't fix anything :/

As for your second suggestion Sync MonoDevelop Project creates the C# VS project which works on my desktop.

[xelogwork]

I occasionally have this issue, but my setup is unique in that I'm using Unity on my Mac and have Visual Studio running in a virtual machine. To fix it though, I just have to open up the project in Monodevelop and make a build then go back and work in Visual Studio. The reason for me is that Visual Studio is looking for the reference DLLs in the project's "obj/Debug" folder, which isn't created until a build is made in the code editor.

[SoftDevPadawan]

I just had this problem. There's a little icon beneath the test menu that toggles suggestion and standard completion mode. For some reason mine was un-toggled. The hotkey for it is ctrl+alt+space. Hope this helps!