Visual Studio 2010 toolbox controls disabled or inactive

Question

I am trying to fix this from last two 2 or 3 days but failed. VS 2010 toolbox in asp application development(design mode or source) is not showing all controls(showing html

Answer 1

If you are working in WPF application and your Xaml is opened with xml, then make sure you right click and view designer, to get your toolbox controls enabled. (Toolbox controls seem to be active(enabled) only in designer mode). At least that was the case with me.

Answer 2

After a long time googling , and mostly all answers - revolving around

1. Reset Toolbar
2. Delete .tbd files from C:\Users(your user)\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\11.0
3. Using devenv.exe /SafeMode & devenv.exe /ResetSettings.

None of them working out for me, making me more sick.

There is something I did which worked and thought it's worth sharing if it helps someone.

I followed all of the above steps, failing . I did Step 1 & 2 with my project (in VS 2012) open and

• Right Click on Toolbox > Choose Items > Pressed Reset > ok.
• Then again, Right Click on Toolbox > Add Tab > 'gave it some name' > then again
• Reset Toolbox

There was some screen flash/flickering - some loading .

And to my surprise the Grey life ( grey controls ) were now available .

Hope this helps someone like me! :)

Answer 3

I tried all the above mentioned still not working for me. I was working on a windows application after that I have started the web application coding on visual studio after that whenever I was opening the Visual studio this problem was occurring. I am using Visual studio 2015. So what I did, I have right-click inside the toolbox panel and selected 'choose option' then under '.Net framework' components tab I have checked all check boxes for which assembly name is 'System.windows.forms' It is working for me now.

Answer 4

I know this is old but I just encountered the same problem and here is what I did:

1. Click on Data Flow
2. Right click anywhere in that window
3. Select SSIS Toolbox.

Hope this would help someone.

Answer 5

This worked for me..

How to completely reset the Toolbox and enable Visual Studio to rebuild it from scratch

1. Close Visual Studio;

2. Open the "c:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0" (Windows 7) folder and remove all the .TBD files;

3. Run the "regedit" tool. For this click the "Run" item in the Start menu and type "regedit" without quotation marks;

4. Find the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\ToolboxControlsInstaller_AssemblyFoldersExCache" and "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\ToolboxControlsInstallerCache" keys;

5. Remove everything from these keys leaving them empty;

6. Run Visual Studio again and wait until it recreates all items in the Toolbox.

Answer 6

Don't know if this applies; but I had all controls in the toolbox disabled; you could see them but they were disabled - This in Visual Studio 2010. I right click on a toolbox item then reset toolbox and then they are enabled. Note that you may lose any custom controls you added.