I have committed the cardinal sin of closing the Diagnostics Tools window, and cannot open it again. Every google search gives solutions that requires me to either uninstall and reinstall VS, enable components that I already have enabled, or something equally wild.
Please tell me that there is a button I can click to make it appear normally again?
Just to be clear, this is what I used to have:
And this is what I see now:
Also, I used to get the diagnostics tool just by starting the program in Debug mode, but now I can only get the bottom image version to appear without complaints by clicking 'Start Debugging' (F5) - have I done something to make the Start button not correspond to Start Debugging?
I have committed the cardinal sin of closing the Diagnostics Tools window, and cannot open it again. Every google search gives solutions that requires me to either uninstall and reinstall VS, enable components that I already have enabled, or something equally wild.
Please tell me that there is a button I can click to make it appear normally again?
Just to be clear, this is what I used to have:
And this is what I see now:
Also, I used to get the diagnostics tool just by starting the program in Debug mode, but now I can only get the bottom image version to appear without complaints by clicking 'Start Debugging' (F5) - have I done something to make the Start button not correspond to Start Debugging?
Share Improve this question asked Feb 7 at 12:57 DepenauDepenau 1331 silver badge4 bronze badges 6- 1 Menu "Window - Reset Window Layout" to the rescue. – Sinatr Commented Feb 7 at 14:01
- @Sinatr Really hoped that this would work, but the diagnostic tools window disappears, and when I enable it again, it is still empty. – Depenau Commented Feb 7 at 14:08
- I don't know how to make my diagnostics window complete empty as on screenshot, without debugging it still have something inside. What have you done exactly? Did you simply close the window? As for start debugging button, try resetting toolbars. – Sinatr Commented Feb 7 at 14:20
- Ensure you run debug, outside of debug session diagnostics window have only settings (almost empty). Do so by using menu "Debug - Start Debugging", as hotkeys/toolbars can be customized and might not be what you think they are. – Sinatr Commented Feb 7 at 14:24
- @Sinatr I am pretty sure all I did was clicking the 'x' in the corner, yea. I tried resetting the toolbars the way they suggest in the link, but nothing changed. Each time I test I do so both by just running the program, but also by clicking Debug - Start Debugging. It used to be that running the program would be equivalent to pressing Start Debugging, but as mentioned, something have changed that. – Depenau Commented Feb 7 at 15:16
1 Answer
Reset to default 0Debug -> Windows -> Show Diagnostic Tools
Alternatively, Ctrl + Alt + F2
You may need to click "Select tools" to have all your options show up in that window again. Next time you Debug, it should pop up automatically.