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Enable Title Bar in VS 2019

Posted by matteskolin on

After a new install of Visual Studio 2019, the title bar was missing. I rely on the title bar to know what solution and branch I have open.

If you are missing your title bar, here is how to re-enable it.

Navigate to

Tools -> Options -> Environment – Preview Features

make sure the below check box is NOT checked.

After the title bar is restored, it should look like this below..

Visual Studio Tips

Visual Studio Shortcut of the day: build current project (Alt + B), u

Posted by matteskolin on

Sometimes when working on a solution with many projects it is helpful to build a single project. For example when working on a large web application, where you are making small changes to an assembly, compiling the change and looking at the output in a browser, it saves time to only build the project that you are changing.

This shortcut requires no custom keybindings, and works by opening the “Build” menu. The name of the current action project (MyKitchen below) will build just the current project, and not the entire solution. My Visual Studio 2019 pictured below also appears to use Shift + F6 to do the same thing.



Visual Studio 2017 and other versions
Alt + B, u

Visual Studio 2019
Shift + F6
Alb + B, u