Why do I get an error 'Cannot resolve symbol <symbolname>' in ReSharper?

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Published on 2010-04-20T21:27:29Z Indexed on 2010/04/20 23:53 UTC
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Using VS2008 and R# 5 I'm running into an odd situation, where on an aspx page I keep getting

Cannot resolve symbol 'symbolname'

But the code compiles and runs fine. While having a fix for this would be great, I'm just trying to figure out if I'm losing my mind.

The CodeFile directive and Inherits directives are fine. If I compile the app or just let devenv sit for a bit it'll go away, but as soon as I save the aspx [via ctrl+s] R# suddenly has trouble with the Inherits attribute and flips out on every method in the page (OnClick etc).

// Anonymized of course but otherwise intact
<%@ Page AutoEventWireup="true" CodeFile="TestPage.aspx.cs" Inherits="TestPage" Language="C#" MasterPageFile="~/MasterPage.master" Title="Test Page Title" %>

This is mostly just a grievance, because since the code compiles it doesn't stop me from doing what I need.

I would post a bug report to the JetBrains site but first I would like to know I'm not alone. It could be my machine. Maybe when I roll to VS2010 in a couple weeks this will go away?

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