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mrsargent
mrsargent

Reputation: 2442

Visual Studio's Toolbox is empty

I am using visual studio 2015. I have my toolbox open and I checked on Show All. I unchecked this an now my entire toolbox is empty except for the General Tab (which there is nothing in). I tried resetting the toolbox but that did not fix the problem. Has anyone encountered this before? If so, what was the fix? Thanks.

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Upvotes: 31

Views: 75686

Answers (13)

Slamit
Slamit

Reputation: 553

I fixed this by just stopping the program from running; if you are running your app to test it, the toolbox will be empty/unshown until you stop the debugger!

Upvotes: 1

Zulu Dev
Zulu Dev

Reputation: 31

In the case of an SSIS toolbox not appearing. On the top ribbon menu click on View -> Other Windows -> SSIS Toolbox, this will show the toolbox with SSIS related items.

SSIS Menu image

Upvotes: 3

Darius
Darius

Reputation: 71

I had the same problem. I solved it by right-clicking on the Design window and adding " Toolbox" (SSIS Toolbox in my case).

Upvotes: 7

Borys
Borys

Reputation: 259

I have that problem still after using repair in VisualStudio Installer. But I found a solution here: https://thinkaboutit.be/2012/10/my-toolbox-is-empty/

The localization off that files can be in different places, for VS 2022 I found some hidden files here:

C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\17.0_dbab3d69

Deleting those files and restarting VS solved the problem.

Upvotes: 25

Abdellatif Med
Abdellatif Med

Reputation: 606

Try right clicking in the toolbox and select 'show all'.

You can also start /reset

From your description, it seems that your issue might be related with IDE. I suggest you to try to execute the following commands:

Devenv.exe /SafeMode

Devenv.exe /ResetSettings

Upvotes: 48

J.A Programmer
J.A Programmer

Reputation: 21

Just restart visual studio and it will pop right back

Upvotes: 0

Maciej Binkowski
Maciej Binkowski

Reputation: 1

I just right-clicked on toolbox area and choose "show all" :) Now it works

Upvotes: -2

user13239154
user13239154

Reputation:

I had a similar problem(Visual Studio 2022). None of the solutions solved my problem. Eventually my problem was solved by repairing the visual studio.

Go to Start >> All Programs >> “Visual Studio 2022” >> “Visual Studio Installer”. Now, click Visual Studio Installer. After clicking repair options progress options open. The repair will take some minutes to complete.

Upvotes: 2

Andrew Bennett
Andrew Bennett

Reputation: 350

I just had the same thing happen to me in Visual Studio 2022 with a .NET 6 WinForms application. After updating VS 2022 to version 17.2.0, my Toolbox entries were blank when I tried to use them to drag and drop into the designer of a project I had just recently created in version 17.1.x.

I ended up fixing this by:

  1. Right-click the Toolbox
  2. Select Choose Items from the resulting context menu
  3. Press the Reset button in the resulting Choose Toolbox Items dialog
  4. Press the OK button when the reset process completed.

Upvotes: 29

sɐunıɔןɐqɐp
sɐunıɔןɐqɐp

Reputation: 3532

In Visual Studio 2019 you can just right click the dark area inside the toolbox and select "Reset Toolbox".

This will remove custom-added controls or any other auto-detected control, and you will be left only with the standard controls.

The issue should be fixed without completely reseting Visual Studio's settings.

Upvotes: 0

jaysworldofcode
jaysworldofcode

Reputation: 21

I don't know why this bug exists, but I fixed mine using the steps below:

  • Right click on toolbox -> Show All -> Check.
  • Wait it to load the controls, then click OK
  • Rigth click on Toolbox and select -> Show All -> Uncheck

Upvotes: 2

Edsel Ayala
Edsel Ayala

Reputation: 227

I encountered the same problem and solved it by:

  1. closing the toggled/opened toolbox
  2. opening any windows form [designer]
  3. re-opening the toolbox

toolbox components will be reloaded again

Upvotes: 1

user10987174
user10987174

Reputation: 1

In my case, I had opened with ctrl+alt+x. I noticed in the newer versions of VS, there is some confused crossover of toolboxes. In my case, it opened the SSRS toolbox, which was not applicable to my SSIS file.

Closed that, right-clicked in design area, and chose SSIS Toolbox. This opened a toolbox called "SSIS Toolbox" rather than just "Toolbox". All fixed.

Upvotes: 0

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