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    WindowsForms 2005 Beta 1 ToolBox Problem

    Just wanted to let you know that if you can't seem to drag any WindowsForms Controls from the ToolBox onto a Form you're not the only one.  I've been having this problem on a couple installs of VS 2005 Beta 1.

    Erick Ellis from Microsoft helped us out in the newsgroups and gave this suggestion.

    try deleting toolbox.tbd from %userprofile%\local settings\application
    data\microsoft\visualstudio\8.0\

    This fixed it, btw...

    Posted: Jul 08 2004, 07:42 PM by HumanCompiler | with 6 comment(s)
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    Comments

    Raghavendra Prabhu said:

    Another option is to reset the toolbox (right click + select Reset).
    # July 9, 2004 6:10 AM

    Erik Porter said:

    Unfortunately that seems to make VS crash in some cases, that's why I had to do this one. :(
    # July 9, 2004 12:13 PM

    TrackBack said:

    # December 30, 2004 2:29 PM

    TrackBack said:

    # December 30, 2004 2:30 PM

    sandhya said:

    i have the same problem . its been months i am sticked with this problem. my toolbox items are not selectable its grayed out. i have tried resetting it number of times. how do i delete the file toolbox.tbd?where is it located? can u please five me the detail procedure. i am fed up with this problem. I have tried installing vs2005 , vs 2008. nothing works.

    # April 11, 2008 2:26 PM

    gremmieouttacontrol said:

    I'm also stuck w/ this issue.  Ill try to post the steps if I can figure it out because im so fed up and have wasted so much time on it i would like to save someone the grief.

    # September 17, 2008 10:35 AM