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Thursday, October 15, 2015 12:18 AM
Hi,
I use Visual studio 2013 on Windows 7 platform
In the past, when I click windows, and click ”Reset window layout”
“Solution explorer” would appear on the side of the screen along with “Team Explorer” and “Class View”
I must have pushed a wrong button, Somehow. Now when I click ”Reset window layout”, the “Solution Explorer” is missing although “TeamExplorer” and “Class View” are still there.
Now I access “Solution Explorer” by clickingView, and “Solution Explorer”.
I like to have “Solution Explorer” to appear when I click window and ”Reset window layout” as in the past.
Would someone tell me how I do this?
Thank you,
ChangChiTheGraphics
chang Chi
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Friday, October 16, 2015 1:40 AM
Hi C.H.Chi,
Thank you for posting in MSDN forum.
Please go to View -> Solution Explorer, to see if you could open the solution explorer.
And then retest this issue by going to Window -> Reset Window Layout.
If you still could not open the solution explorer, I doubt that it is related to your visual studio, please go to Control Panel to repair your visual studio to see if it helps.
If the repair doesn't help, Please open Windows Explorer, and navigate to <Visual Studio Installation Path>\Common7\IDE (by default is C:\Program Files or Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE), and run the following commands:
a.devenv.exe /resetsettings, it will restore Visual Studio default settings. Optionally resets the settings to the specified .vssettings file.
b.devenv.exe /resetuserdata, it will take a couple of minutes to run as Visual Studio cleans up and sets itself back to its original state. You may open Task Manager at this point to check whether the devenv.exe process is still running. After it has completed running, you can restart Visual Studio.
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Saturday, October 24, 2015 4:52 AM
Hi,
Thank you for your response.
View -> Solution Explorer gives me Solution Explorer.
But Window -> Reset Window Layout does not show the Solution Explorer
I am not familiar with Control Panel -> repair procedure,
Therefore, I did the following,
Windows Explorer -> c:\Program files(x86) ->Microsoft Visual studio 12.0 -> common 7 ->IDE Then I see devenv.exe
But I don’t know how to implement devenv.exe/resettings file.
Would you show me how I can proceed from this point?.
Thanking you in advance
ChangChiTheGraphics
chang Chi
Monday, October 26, 2015 9:18 AM | 1 vote
Hi C.H.Chi,
Please go to Control Panel -> Uninstall a Program, and then select your visual studio, right click, Change -> Repair, to repair your visual studio.
>> Would you show me how I can proceed from this point?.
please take the following steps:
(1) Input "cmd" in the Run to launch the command prompt
(2) Drag devenv.exe to the command prompt
(3) Insert the blank, and then input "/resetsettings"
(4) Press the enter key
Repeat the above steps to run the "/resetuserdata" command.
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Thursday, May 10, 2018 5:03 PM
For me, running .\devenv /resetsettings fixed this issue in Visual Studio 2017.