Visual Studio 2013 “Show All Files” button is missing

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It turns out the issue was that the “Show All Files” button does not appear if you are selecting the Solution itself. If you select an underlying Project, or any of the folders/files in the project, the button will display:

Show All Files button

And here is the Solution Explorer view after clicking the button:

Show All Files view in the Solution Explorer

Note: see also this post for a solution for Visual Studio 2012, which didn’t solve my problem but is closely related.

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