visual studio output window not showing

Question

I'm on a mac and using Visual Studio Community 2017 and the output window doesn't come up when I run the program, I don't know how to reset the settings if that's even possible, I don't think I have touched any settings but something obviously happened. I deleted and reinstalled Visual Studio but it still didn't work.

Solution 1

In the visual studio GUI, go to Window>Reset Window Layout. This should do it!

Solution 2

Try Ctrl+Alt+O or go to VIEW -> Output

Solution 3

I'm on windows and none of the solutions above worked for me. I have 4 monitors and it turned out my output window had moved off the screen. Turning off 3 of the monitors so windows auto-adjust got it back for me.

Solution 4

You should be able to toggle the Output window by going to View > Output Window. If it still doesn't appear, then try Window > Reset Window Layout.

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