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Visual Studio 2010 Toolbox controls disabled

VS 2010 Toolbox in ASP.NET application development (design mode or source) is not showing all controls (showing HTML and reporting ones), I can see all by right click (Show all) but they are greyed out or inactive.

I have used devnev.exe in VS Command line to reset, have reinstalled VS, have deleted the four hidden files in C:\Users\Ramzan\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0 with extension .tbd, all in vain.

This thing is driving me mad. I have another machine and everything works fine there.
Any help much appreciated.

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Muhammad Ramzan Avatar asked Jan 15 '12 17:01

Muhammad Ramzan


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1 Answers

Don't know if this applies; but I had all controls in the toolbox disabled; you could see them but they were disabled - This in Visual Studio 2010. I right click on a toolbox item then reset toolbox and then they are enabled. Note that you may lose any custom controls you added.

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Eric Coulson Avatar answered Oct 07 '22 19:10

Eric Coulson