How to show / unhide Web Essential bar from chrome?

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Visual Studio Problem Overview


I've checked autohide and the bar disappeared but now how can I see it again?

Visual Studio Solutions


Solution 1 - Visual Studio

It's enough to press CTRL from inside Chrome.

Solution 2 - Visual Studio

To see the Web Essentials menu in Chrome when using Visual Studio 2015:

Solution 3 - Visual Studio

CTRL works inside of Internet explorer as well.

Solution 4 - Visual Studio

Note that you have to have BrowserLink enabled. Otherwise Ctrl doesn't do anything.

Solution 5 - Visual Studio

Note, this feature is no longer available in Visual Studio 2017 update 3 as the author, madskristensen states:

It was removed for several reasons.

  1. It interfered too much with the DOM of the running page
  2. It didn't work when the various features were split out into their own extension
  3. I build this Chrome extension to replace it

Link to image of evidence is below.(Not enough rep to show image on post)

Author of web essentials explaining why the tool bar is not suitable for the browser

Link to issue on github

Solution 6 - Visual Studio

There is a WebEssentials2015-Settings.json file which contains default settings for web essentials (e.g. for VS2015 it is \AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\WebEssentials2015-Settings.json). After I clicked autohide the only way for me to bring the web essentials menu back in the browsers was to edit this file setting the ShowMenu to true ("ShowMenu": true). That fixed the issue for me.

One note though, this file seems to be read on VS startup so you may need to restart VS to see the difference. Also these settings can be separately set for each solution (Web Essentials > Create solution settings). This option creates the .json file specific for given solution.

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