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Jack
Jack

Reputation: 16724

Any alternative to 'Choose items' in VS toolbox?

I'd like to add a custom control to my VS toolbox but the VS crash when I click on toolbox -> mouse right-click -> 'choose items...'. I read it's a know VS bug (since VS 08, from what I've read) that wasn't fixed yet.

Here's what I've tried so far:

  1. start in safe mode: WDExpress /safemode
  2. run as adm
  3. Reset the Toolbox.
  4. Check for the .tbd files and then delete them. But actually there are no any .tbd files in those folders:

C:\Users\myUsername\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0

C:\Users\myUsername\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\12.0

(I guess there are two folder because I have the VS WEB installed apart from the VS 13, which I'm using and haveing that issue)

  1. All those answers.
  2. Try to clear this registers, which didn't exits in my installation.

NOTE: I didn't have any thrid party libraries installed. This is the very first one I will install.

But it didn't made any difference on my case and still crash. Any workaround? maybe add it via command-line or something? I'm pretty sure reinstall it will not make difference either.

EDIT: I didn't find the devenv.exe (to run /safemode flag) in my VS installation folder but I read WDExpress is the equivalent to so I ran it.

EDIT 2: This is the screenshot before the crash:

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EDIT 3: Here's some information from the Event Viewer of my system. Not sure if it helps. My giess is: it did crashed when trying to get the version of the microsoft.teamfoundation.discussion.client.dll dll.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1348

Answers (1)

Jack
Jack

Reputation: 16724

After hours I finally I fixed it :) I hope it useful to anyone. This was pretty simple: control panel -> Add or Remove Programs -> select the Visual Studio -> Add or Remove -> will open the VS uninstall program, click on Repair button. After repair finishied I restarted the machine and worked fine for me.

Upvotes: 2

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