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Why aren't my Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 debugging toolbar commands showing?


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I can't see neither my breakpoints or any debugging commands. I have installed Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 and I'm currently editing a c++ source file and i'm having big troubles with debugging. Does anyone know a fix?


Solution

  • Reinstall VS should be the last resort, you can try below suggestions first.

    Please try to restart VS 2017 and if it doesn’t work, try to reboot your machine.

    Please try to repair Visual Studio like Alan mentioned, in Visual Studio Installer > find Visual Studio 2017 > More > Repair.

    Make sure that you are not using some extensions which may cause incompatibility. If you installed some extensions, please try to disable them temporary(Tools > Extensions and Updates… > find the extension you installed manually before > select it > Disable) and restart VS 2017.

    Also, please try to delete the hidden .vs folder in your solution folder, and then try to start debugging again.

    Sometimes, updating VS 2017(VS Installer > find VS 2017 > Update) will work.