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VS 2008 View Server Explorer not opening window

Friday, January 22, 2010 4:21 PM

I ran into a problem when trying to view the Server Explorer window in VS 2008 today.  The window would not show up in the Visual Studio IDE no matter what I tried, even when I went to View > Server Explorer.  Fortunately, there is an easy fix for this in most cases.  All you have to do is open up the VS 2008 Command Prompt and type in devenv /setup.  After that close and reopen Visual Studio and you should be able to view the Server Explore window.  Warning: This command will reset your VS 2008 menus and toolbars so you could lose customizations you might have made to the IDE.



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# re: VS 2008 View Server Explorer not opening window

Good Post. working fine 4/16/2010 2:42 AM | Soma

# re: VS 2008 View Server Explorer not opening window

Thank you thank you thank you!!!! 8/17/2011 3:39 PM | Ydancy

# re: VS 2008 View Server Explorer not opening window

Wow it worked for me. nice Solutions. 10/28/2011 9:01 AM | Amandeep Singh

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