Missing Status Bar in Visual Studio?

Question

Note: This question and answer is a full copy from Kelly Brownsbergers Blog. I do post it as a convenience to others.

From time to time, my status bar disappears. I used to believe this was due to a botched install or add-in. I recently upgraded to Team System Test Edition, and my status bar again disappeared. For the last few weeks I’ve been trying to figure out a time to do a full reinstall.

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Answer 1

Today, I discovered this is a setting in Visual Studio (duh). Go to Tools –> Options –> Environment –> General section and check the “Show status bar” checkbox:

And you’ll have your status bar back.

See: Kelly Brownsbergers Blog