I work in Visual Studio 2008, and a moment ago, I lost access to the windows usually docked at the bottom of the IDE (Immediate, Error List, Search Results) and I can’t find a way to get them back again.
I tried
- Using all the possible shortcuts (CTRL+ALT+I, CTRL+ALT+O)- none of them work
- Using the menu: Debug > Windows > Immediate- did not work
- Doing a search- no results appear
- Rebooting- didn’t work either
I can however watch, dock, and generally work the breakpoints window.
When I am in Debug mode I can see them again, but if I try to de-dock the window, I get a VS Exception.
Has anyone experienced this issue before?
The menu commands (which you’ve already tried)
or the keyboard shortcuts
Ctrl + D, I or Ctrl + Alt + I (For the Immediate window)
should work.
If they don’t, (and it isn’t because the windows are collapsed, undocked, etc) then something has gone wrong.
Try
(see Mladen’s post) and if that fails, try restarting Visual Studio.
If all else fails, you can try
(It gives you an option to backup your current settings)