Visual Studio Toolbox – Items missing
Today, a team member asked for help with a Visual Studio issue he had just run into. In short, his Visual Studio toolbox was acting strange and was essentially unusable. The toolbox was blank and clicking Reset Toolbox (though it took forever) did not help. Clicking Show All Items did in fact show ALL items, but they were greyed out and unusable. After trying everything under the sun to fix the issue we figured that there was something profile-specific going on and, after browsing his local settings, came up with the following fix: Close all instances of Visual Studio Navigate to the following directory (I am using 2008 – for a different version change the 9.0 to reflect the correct version number/folder) %userprofile%\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0 You should see four files: toolbox.tbd toolbox_reset.tbd toolboxIndex.tbd toolboxIndex_reset.tbd Move these files to another folder (or, if you are very bra
