Re-enable title bar in Visual Studio 2019

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It appears that some time around March 2019 the option to restore the title bar through a setting in the IDE was restored. I can confirm that the option remains in the latest release and preview versions of Visual Studio as of June 2019.

Go to:

Tools > Options > Environment > Preview Features

and untick

“Use compact menu and search bar (requires restart)”

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Then click “OK” and restart Visual Studio.

If the setting gets removed again, it may still be possible to fall back to editing the file CurrentSettings.vssettings. Change:

<PropertyValue name="IsMinimalVsEnabled">True</PropertyValue>

to

<PropertyValue name="IsMinimalVsEnabled">False</PropertyValue>

Look for the file in %LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\16.0_xxxxxxxx\Settings\CurrentSettings.vssettings (where 16.0_xxxxxxxx will be the version you have installed).

VS2022 Update

The setting is now named UseMinimalMode in CurrentSettings.vssettings

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