Toolbar disappeared in Visual Studio

Question

Visual Studio ate my toolbar, I opened a solution for a project I've been working on for a few months, and the toolbar has 135 buttons on it, and while it was loading, the whole toolbar flickered like it was trying to give me a seizure or something, and then it dissappeared. Now when I click Debug, it won't let me do it because all the resources are missing!?

I'm using:

Visual Studio 2010 C# Express Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit.

I have searched Google and found nothing related. I'm hoping that Visual Studio can also somehow make bowel movements so I can find those missing resources and put everything back together again, but I don't think that's a likely scenario...

Has anybody ever experienced this before, and if so, are there any updates/fixes for this?

Answer 1

• First of all - shame on you for not having a backup or better using source control. Who basically cares whetehr you lost the current work, if your last working state is an "undo checkout" away.

• Second, your toolbar is code. Look into the code behind file. Find out what is wrong there / missing there. Comment parts out until it works again, then slowly uncomment them until you find the wrong issue ;)