Thursday, February 27, 2020

Visual Studio 2019 ToolBar Icons Missing FIX

Ran into a problem where all the icons in VS 2019 disappeared.   I ran Visual Studio 2019 as admin , then in safe mode, no dice with either.
As per
 https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/94502/visual-studio-2017-153-toolbar-icons-are-missing.html
 which addresses the visual studio toolbars gone, I tried the missing icon fix on visual studio 2019 and it worked.

I shut down vs2019 and deleted

 %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\[UniqueID]\ImageLibrary \delete all contents here

Upon loading VS2019 after deleting the cache file my VS2019 toolbar icons reappeared.


 Your machine will have a unique id in the file path. Beware there may be a folder named Visual Studio (notice space)  next to VisualStudio; VisualStudio is the correct folder to traverse to access the ImageLibrary cache file.

My file path was structured as below.
C:\Users\davec\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\16.0_fb365b0b\ImageLibrary\delete all contents here