Intellisense issue with Directory Symbolic links

[deonm]

Hi,

This is a problem that I found after upgrading to v6.1 Beta 4 from v6.1 Beta 1. So it could have been introduced at Beta 2, 3 or 4.

Reading the release notes https://visualgdb.com/history/#:~:text=2026Clang%20IntelliSense%20now%20uses%20LLVM%2021%2E1 makes me think it probably has been there since Beta 2.

I need to move source code tree’s between my laptop and desktop PC from time to time, both machines are running Windows 11 pro.

On my laptop my source code base directory is C:\code, on my desktop PC it is D:\Code

I have also created a Directory Symbolic link on my desktop C:\code to D:\Code

Now, on my desktop PC when I load the solution from C:\code (the Directory Symbolic link) then Intellisense fails. However if I load the solution from D:\Code it works fine.

Please see attached logs from the diagnostics console (one from a linux project and one from a PicoSDK project).

In case it is important, this problem occurs under either Visual Studio 2022 or 2026.

I have tried to delete .visualgdb as well as .vs directories in the soloution and projects directories (where different) but Intellisense still fails when the solution is loaded from the Directory Symbolic link.

I hope I have explained this adequately and would be happy to provide you with anything else you may need.

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