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

If you right click on the Toolbox and select 'Choose Items...' and then sort by the 'Namespace' column, you can then select the ones you need (for example System.Windows.Forms for WinForms).

You can multiselect with Shift and then select/deselect the group.

The controls then reappear in the Toolbox as enabled.

Answer 2

Actually you may be able to add a registry key to get this to work also.

Answer 3

Make sure you're not in Debug mode.