icon missing on tool bar in visual studio 2015 (VS 2015)

Question

I have just install vs 2015, but when I open it I am not getting the icon/image on the toolbar. I have tried to reset the toolbar but that did not do the trick. I also tried to do a repair but it did not solve this problem.

I am wondering if someone experience something similar ?

For the moment, I added the text on to the button so at least I can use it, but it is far from been ideal. I am on a corporate enviroment (no admin priviliges), one of my colleague tried and it work without problem for him.

Answer 1

Had a similar problem after an upgarde to Windows 10 where all my icons had disappeared. Also had a problem with a cordova android build getting stuck at "run.bat --nobuild --device --debug". Think this was permission related.

I fixed my issue as follows:

Right click the Visual Stuido 2015 shortcut, and choose "run as administrator", and see if that works.

To always run as admin, right click the Visual Stuido 2015 shortcut, click advanced, and then tick "run as administrator".

Also, in my case, after upgrade to Windows 10, my user account was put into a user group called "HelpLibraryUpdaters", I switched this to "Administrator".

Answer 2

You could try to disable hardware acceleration to use software rendering: Options -> General ->Automatically Adjust client experience based on client performance. I was able to get icons back but only after several restart cycles. I have NVidia Quadro video card which might cause rendering issues.

Answer 3

Delete the folder

%LocalAppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\14.0\ImageLibrary

and let VS re-generate the image cache.

Answer 4

Launch Visual Studio in safe mode (devenv /safemode). Icons should appear in toolbar from now on.