New VS 2019 on Windows 10 installation has no "Build" menu item and Build buttons are grayed out.

[Gerald Christian]

I have a subscription to Professional VS 2017.

I have installed VS 2019 on a new Windows 10 PC.

I wish to build an existing .NET C# project, which builds correctly on VS 2017 on a Windows 7 machine.

One of the items chosen for the VS 2019 install was .NET with C#.

Problem: the Build menu item is absent from the task bar.

Note: these are NOT the "build definition" buttons, but the Build button used to start a build of the loaded project. The equivalent shortcut key would be "F7", which in this case is ignored.

If I assign the Build toolbar to appear, the Build buttons on the toolbar are grayed out.

I executed a "Tools > Import Settings > Reset all Settings" with a selection of "Reset to C#".

This did not help.

I then uninstalled VS 2019, and installed VS 2017, which has been running successfully on the afore-mentioned Windows 7 PC.

I had the same problem there.

I imported the VS 2017 settings from the Windows 7 PC and that did not resolve the issue.

Your help is appreciated.

GCB

Toronto,

Ontario, Canada

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