Viv,

Thanks for the reply. I won't have access to the problem installation until tomorrow mornng, but when I tried your suggestion on my own, "normal", installation, I didn't have a Data Sources option in my View menu. I only have the Standard Edition of VS2005 if that's relevant.

Cheers,
David.
P.S. I'm very envious of your location - I love old books!


>The missing items aren't tabs on the Solution Explorer - they are other windows docked on the same edge. To get them back select them from the 'View' menu then drag the windows over the Solution Explorer.
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>Update: Guess that isn't quite right - actually the windows get combined when you drag one window onto the caption of another.....
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>HTH,
>Viv
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>>The Solution Explorer window in one of my Visual Studio instances has lost the tabs along the bottom wnich, on the two others, show "Data Sources", and "Class View" or "Resource View".
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>>I have tried the Reset Window Layout menu option, and everything else I can think of, to restore these tabs, all to no avail.
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>>Please advise soonest.
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>>Thanks,
>>David.