Sometime you may came across with this problem that, you are not able to view the solution file in Visual Studio though you have solution file in proper place and the file physically exists in solution folder . You may just wonder why you are not able to view the solution file. Yeah, it could be some missing settings with in visual studio.

If you create any Visual Studio Project, by default you will get below view in Solution Explorer ( Solution file and the Project files associated with in solution ).

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