Allow manually forcing a refresh of the IntelliSense database

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When I pull the latest changes with Git, sometimes Visual Studio doesn't pick up the changes, showing up errors like "X class does not contain a definition of Y method" that only go away when I open the class where that method is defined (this is a C# repository).

Building/rebuilding doesn't help. The only way workarounds are to manually delete the .vs folder and reopening the solution, or manually open every file that shows the errors.

Even in other languages like C++, IntelliSense frequently goes out of sync with the code, and VS doesn't provide any way to manually trigger a rescan.

It would be nice if there was a way to manually trigger a rescan of the entire solution, as VSCode (and most other IDEs) already have.

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Original Comments

George Osgood on 5/7/2024, 09:21 AM:

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Feedback Bot on 5/7/2024, 07:38 PM:

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Tiberiu Chibici [MSFT] on 5/8/2024, 05:01 AM:

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Tiberiu Chibici [MSFT] on 5/8/2024, 05:11 AM:

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Sam Harwell [MSFT] on 5/23/2024, 11:31 AM:

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[CyrusNajmabadi]

Dupe of #73693