Why do my toolbox items disappear in Visual Studio 2008?

Question

I\'m working on a solution that contains multiple projects targeting Windows Mobile 5 and standard Windows applications.

Lately when opening up a form in designer th

Answer 1

I had exactly the same problem (after installing Windows Mobile SDK all items in the toolbox were greyed out).

I've startet the Visual Studio 2008 command line as administrator and started the following command (WARNING - all your settings are lost !!)

devenv /setup /resetuserdata /selfreg /resetskippkgs

After that the toolbox looked fine and worked like on the first day. The idea came from this thread: connect.microsoft.com