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aaron
aaron

Reputation: 748

Visual Studio Error List is hidden

I am using Visual studio 2008 and for some reason when I started today my code is not compiling. I am getting the standard 'Build Failed' message but the Error List is not showing. when I select Error List from the View menu nothing happens.

The output window shows up fine and so does the to do window.

Has anyone seen this before?

Upvotes: 10

Views: 18341

Answers (6)

modern_stonetime_programmer
modern_stonetime_programmer

Reputation: 3

"To display the Error List, choose View > Error List, or press Ctrl++E." This is from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/ide/reference/error-list-window?view=vs-2022 . In my view the "View -> Error List" would be the best solution, because in "View" menu one can see also other windows and view options which would be interesting for a VS user.

Upvotes: 0

Ahmed Mahmoud AbdElbaset
Ahmed Mahmoud AbdElbaset

Reputation: 39

delete hidden .vs folder in the project folder then close and re-launch your Visual Studio

Upvotes: -1

Shahar Shokrani
Shahar Shokrani

Reputation: 8750

Just Type:

CTRL+\+E

(without the + sign)

Upvotes: 8

Elnoor
Elnoor

Reputation: 3752

In my case VS2015 was finding errors but wasn't displaying what are the errors, basically Error List tab was empty. But checking Output tab i found errors and clicking on them opened up the file which had errors, also errors started to show up in Error List tab as well afterwards.

Upvotes: 1

Sam Harwell
Sam Harwell

Reputation: 99859

Window > Reset Window Layout

Upvotes: 15

Michael Haren
Michael Haren

Reputation: 108246

That's a new one for me.

Go to Tools > Import and Export Settings and export all your settings to a file for safe keeping.

Then go in there again and reset everything. Report back if that helped. If it did, try importing your settings again to see what happens.

Upvotes: 4

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