I have been noticing lately that the Build Configuration dropdown list that is normally found the the Standard Toolbar is missing from my Visual Studio 2010 installation.
After a bit of digging around the Internet, I found a solution, which I’ll document further here.
The Procedure
1) Select Tools, Customize…
2) Click the Commands tab
3) Select the Toolbar radio button.
4) Select Standard from the dropdown list. The dialog should now look like this:
5) Scroll down to the bottom of the list and select the last item in the list. In my case, unmodified, the last item is Error List.
6) Click the Add Command button.
7), Under Categories, select Build. Under Commands, select Solution Configurations. You should see this:
8) Click OK, the Close
9) The Visual Studio 2010 main menu should now look something like this:
I hope that saves you a bit of searching and hand-wringing.
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[...] The Visual Studio 2010 Build Configuration Dropdown Missing Posted on July 13, 2010 by roman20007 by Mitch Milam [...]
thank you so much!
somebody at MS (preferably in QA, Product Management or Product Configuration) should be LOOSING THEIR JOB over this.
this is 1 of my top 10 things in VS that either doesn't work nor is configured right out of the box properly.
countless developers have spent countless hours on this.
thanks again
rob
See my update to that article from today.
Awesome, thank you!! That was bugging the hell out of me. :-)
Mitch – I have a deadline and nicely matching guillotine to go with it. Thank you for saving me precious time here!!!