DataTable visualizer disappeared from my Visual St

Question

A while ago I noticed I don't have a magnifying-glass next to my datatables. I used to have it, and somehow, sometime, it disappeared...
Has anyone seen this happen? Do you know how to help me view my datatables again?

Update: I'm still clueless about this. Could anyone point me in some direction, where should I even start looking for an answer? Thanks a lot.

Update: I changed to a new computer, and still the same problem. But I pinpointed it to being only in Visual Studio 2005. On Visual Studio 2008 I have perfectly normal DataSet and Datatable visualizers. So I tried re-installing VS2005, to make sure all the components were installed, nothing left out - but Nada. Still no visualizer.

Update: Found the solution to my problem: My answer

Answer 1

I am using Visual Studio 2017 and I had the same issue. I realised the visualizers folder is missing in my documents. I think this is something to do with the recent windows upgrade on the office computer. I have resolved it by creating an empty Visualizers folder.

Answer 2

I tried everything in this post but nothing worked for me. I am running Windows 7 64-bit. Eventually I was able to find a solution in this post

Answer 3

Give devenv /resetskippkgs a try...

Answer 4

1. Create a new clean project, does the Visualizer show up there?
2. Check if this file exist: "\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8.0\Common7\Packages\Debugger\Visualizers\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Debugger.DataSetVisualizer.dll"
3. Check if the dll is loaded in Visual Studio, Open your project, then open anther Visual Studio, attach the debugger into the first Visual Studio (Make sure that managed debugger is selected). Inside the debugging Visual Studio open Debug/Windows/Modules to see if the DataSetVisualizer is loaded.
4. try devenv /ResetSettings from an admin console.

Answer 5

I was having the same problem, nothing would appear when I hovered over my dataset variable. I was finally able to see the dataset visualizer when I added my.forms in front of my dataset variable in the Watch window

Answer 6

I have the same problem and it drives me crazy. Finally, I have it works after trying many advice from Googling and trail and error.

1. \Common7\IDE\devenv.exe /resetuserdata at the command prompt.
2. I rename Microsoft.VisualStudio.Debugger.DataSetVisualizer.dll to Microsoft.VisualStudio.Debugger.DataSetVisualizer.dll.test on both C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\PublicAssemblies And \My Documents\Visual Studio 2005\Visualizers