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visual studio editor expand collapse widgets are gone

The plus / minus signs are gone to expand / collapse regions. The vertical lines to indicate regions are gone too.

The regions are collapsing and all the commands under edit, outlining work fine.

It's just I have to double click on the collapsed region to expand and there's no way to collapse a region with the mouse. Only the shortcut keys (ctrl m, m) or the menu will do it.

I swear it was right this morning but I did something to mess it up. I can't find any option in tools to fix it either.

UPDATE

Now, some files are doing this and other files (both opened at same time) are not doing it. If anyone can explain, I'm all ears.

Solution

  • This same thing happens to me multiple times a day using VS.NET 2015 Pro version 14.0.24720.00 Update 1. Restarting the IDE always restores normal function for a while but the problem always returns, seemingly at random.

    UPDATE:

    I tried changing the theme from dark to blue and it restored the outlining. I then changed back to dark from blue and the outlining continued to work normally. Still a pain but definitely a lot faster than restarting the IDE.