Visual studio 2012 - locals have disappeared

Question

While debugging VS2012 I have found that I can no longer access variable values:

• The Locals window does not show anything (pictured below).
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Answer 1

I will add this answer as I had the same problem with a different resolution.

I had mistakenly closed the locals window and could not find it as it was not with other windows under the VIEW menu. I found it under the DEBUG menu Windows option.

or Optionally:

Ctrl+Alt+V, L