Missing sidebar and menu bar in VS Code - how to restore the layout?

Question

Here's a screenshot of what I'm seeing.

How to restore the basic layout of vs code. Accidentally the sidebar and menu bar is hidden. I am unable to access anything. Please help me out from this issue.

I did not find sidebar, menu bar and other functionalities.

Answer 1

You may click on the "Customize layout.." button and then view/hide/restore the appropriate bars as shown in below screenshot:

Answer 2

You can reset view locations using the View: Reset View Locations command in the command palette.

For the missing menu, check your user settings.json file and look for a line that modifies the "window.menuBarVisibility" property. I suspect you have accidentally set it to "hidden". You can either change the value to whatever you want, or remove that line to cause the default value of the setting to be used.