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Trowa
Trowa

Reputation: 365

Visual Studio 2017 - Toolbox not loaded and hanging

I have just installed Visual Studio 2017 in my Windows 10.

I got error in initializing the Toolbox and it keep hanging.

Is there something I can do with?

I have launched the VS 2017 with Administrator, but this doesn't resolved the issue.

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 2204

Answers (4)

Miroslaw
Miroslaw

Reputation: 3

I fixed the problem by simple solution. Follow these steps:

  1. Run VS, continue without code
  2. Menu View/Toolbox to show Tollbox
  3. Close VS and run again
  4. Open or create your project

Upvotes: 0

Jack Hadley
Jack Hadley

Reputation: 21

I tried all the voodoo solutions, removed every extension (xamarin included) and every package except the core .net and C# VS, which I updated to the latest version available v15.9.30. Same problem.

The solution for me was to uninstall an office plugin/tool from a previous visual studio.

The problem app was "Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Tools For Office Runtime (x64)". After I uninstalled it, the problem was gone.

Upvotes: 0

Tuncay Göncüoğlu
Tuncay Göncüoğlu

Reputation: 1767

Had the same problem. I did have Xamarin installed but not Android SDK, because I had it already installed for various other tools.

Turns out this is caused by Xamarin trying to access Android SDK, which isnt there. Solution seems to be to either remove Xamarin or install Android SDK, according to development community forum.

Unfortunatly, installing Xamarin and going into Xamarin/Android Settings to point to existing Android SDK (without it) also seems to hang VS2017.

HOWEVER...

If you want to keep Xamarin and use your own Android SDK/NDK, what you can do is:

  1. Lauch Visual Studio 2017 Installer
  2. Install Xamarin and Android SDK (dont need to install NDK as well)
  3. Launch Visual Studio 2017
  4. Go into Tools / Options / Xamarin / Android Settings (It wont hang now)
  5. Point to your existing Andoid SDK / NDK and Java runtime you want to use
  6. Close VS2017
  7. Go back to Visual Studio Installer
  8. Uninstall Android SDK

Before that I tried to define an ANDROID_HOME environment variable and tried to set the paths in registry, neither of those helped. This fixed the problem for me.

Upvotes: 1

Antonis Kneer
Antonis Kneer

Reputation: 26

I had the same issue. I uninstalled Azure stuff and Clang/C2 and Toolset for Visual 2015.3 v140 and Xamarin stuff and added Apache Ant. After that it worked. So some of the above seams to resolve the issue. I will not do further investigation, because for me it is OK without that stuff.

Upvotes: 1

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