I have downloaded Visual Studio 2022 few weeks ago, from the first time I open it I found that both toolbox and properties window are empty
What should I do to fix this issue?
I am also facing the same problems. But in respect of toolbox, I right-clicked inside the empty toolbox and chose 'Reset toolbox' option in the context menu. After this, the toolbox items appeared. But in respect of the properties window, I am still searching for a solution.
When I first opened visual studio, I created the CMake project. Both the toolbox and property pages were empty. Resetting the toolbox did not help. Then, I closed and opened the visual studio and created a new empty project. With this, I am able to view the property pages(Rightclick Solution in Solution Explorer -> Properties). And for the toolbox, it was still empty. After few trials of 'reset toolbox', I did right click and 'show all' option. It worked.
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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.
Try right clicking in the toolbox and select 'show all'... I hope this help. =)
you can also start /reset
Thank you for posting.
Could you please capture some screenshots for me?
From your description, it seems that your issue might be related with IDE. I suggest you to try to execute the following command.
Devenv.exe /SafeMode
Devenv.exe /ResetSettings
If you have any concern, please feel free to let me know.
Best Regards,
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:
Right-click the Toolbox
Select Choose Items from the resulting context menu
Press the Reset button in the resulting Choose Toolbox Items dialog
Press the OK button when the reset process completed.
I have that problem still after using repair in VisualStudio Instaler. But find solution her : https://thinkaboutit.be/2012/10/my-toolbox-is-empty/
. The localization off that files can be in diffrent places, for VS 2022 i find her: C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\17.0_dbab3d69
That files are hiden.
I had the same problem. I have tried with right click on the design windows and add " Toolbox" (SSIS Toolbox in my case). This worked for me.
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
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.
I encountered the same problem and solved it by:
closing the toggled/opened toolbox
opening any windows form [designer]
re-opening the toolbox
toolbox components will be reloaded again
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
This is an old question but I could fix it easily by just stopping the program running.
If you run your app to test it the toolbox will be empty until you stop the debugger!
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.
I just right-clicked on toolbox area and choose "show all" :) Now it works
Just restart visual studio and it will pop right back
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.
2 Issues with VS 2013:
I have the default toolbox and also the AjaxToolkit toolbox, everything is working properly until I uninstall the AjaxToolkit and the toolbox is gone, I reset window layout, reset the toolbox but it is still empty.
How to get the default toolbox back?
Secondly, I accidentally open the PerformanceExplorer in one of the project and can't not make it disappear, every time I open that project the PerformanceExplorer will pop up, that very annoying. anyuone know how to close the PerformanceExplorer?
Found the answer for 1st issue from: https://www.devexpress.com/Support/Center/Question/Details/K18560
The following steps allow you to reset the Toolbox completely and
enable Visual Studio to rebuilt it from scratch. In most cases, this
procedure solves all issues related to Silverlight toolbox items.
Above all, reset the Toolbox from Visual Studio. For this right-click
the Toolbox and click the "Reset Toolbox" item. After the reset
procedure is done, follow these steps:
Close Visual Studio;
Open the "c:\Users\\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0"
(Windows 7) folder and remove all the .TBD files; (10.0 is VS 2010, 12 is VS 2013 etc.)
Run the "regedit" tool. For this click the "Run" item in the Start menu and type "regedit" without quotation marks;
Find the "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\ToolboxControlsInstaller_AssemblyFoldersExCache"
and
"HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\ToolboxControlsInstallerCache"
keys;
Remove everything from these keys leaving them empty; (delete all folders under ToolboxControlsInstaller_AssemblyFoldersExCache and
ToolboxControlsInstallerCache)
Run Visual Studio again and open a project and wait until it recreates all items in the Toolbox.
For second issue looks like it is a bug that has not been fixed yet
My toolbox is empty.
Obviously, I'm not the first. I read this question and this other question, but that didn't help.
I click here...
I get this window...
With instructions that say: "...Drag an item onto this text, to add it to the toolbox..."
Sounds good; from where do I get such items to drag?
The toolbox is empty because there is no project loaded.
The toolbox is populated with tools/controls according to the type of the current project. The controls are different for MFC than they are for ASP.NET, for example. If you haven't loaded any project, Visual Studio can't populate the toolbox.
Either open an existing project, or go to File -> New Project to create a new one.
Have you tried right-clicking on it and selecting the "Reset Toolbox" option? You can also try to manually add specific tools to it by using the "Choose Items..." option.
A common suggest is also to go into the Visual Studio 2010 Directory and delete all of the .tbd files within the following directory (Related) :
C:\Documents and Settings\Local Settings\Application Data\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0"
Although if neither of these options work, you will really want to consider possibly reinstalling / repairing Visual Studio.
Is your project running? I noticed that my toolbox is empty when I am debugging the project. Try stopping debugging.
When you start Visual Studio you get a start page with all the latest projects in a list.
But when you've opened and closed a project, how do you open that start page again?
(Without restarting VS)
Visual Studio 2010-2015
There's a menu item View -> Start Page
Additionally you can choose to keep the start page open when loading a project. There's a check box below the projects list for that.
(Tested in VS2010, VS2012, VS2013, VS2015)
In current versions, you can also use the Quick Launch (Ctrl+Q) to search for the command
(Just type "Start Page" in Quick Launch)
Visual Studio 2017
There's a menu item File -> Start Page
You can configure the behavior of the IDE on startup via Tools -> Options -> Environment -> Startup.
In Visual Studio 2017, the start page will open automatically when the solution is closed. As far as I know, this cannot be changed directly in the IDE but there's an extension that adds that feature. See this question on SO and this VSIX-Extension (but this will disable the start page completely - if you try to open it manually, it will be immediately closed automatically)
You also have the Start Page icon in the toolbar :
In VS2013 by default I do not see the "Start Page" command in the View menu but adding it was simple. The icon also looks different in VS2013.
Right click on the toolbar and choose Customize... at the bottom then go to Commands
Switch to Toolbar/Standard and then click the Add Command button an locate the View group on the left
Finally locate the Start Page item and click OK.
In VS 2017 the new location for viewing the start page
is under the 'file' menu. as appears in this link:
https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/4603/view-start-page-menu-item-is-missing.html
In VS 2017 it's in File->Start Page.
By now there is an extension exactly for that purpose:
https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/e64380ab-e3aa-4ac7-aa11-95719c5c91e9
I tried it an it works like a charme in VS 2015 :)
To get start page in visual studio 2017 Go to File -> Start Page
In case of Visual Studio 2019, go to File->Start Window.
It used to be automatic in VS2008 - Anything you had open outside of any solution/project (including the start page) would close when you opened a project/solution, then when closed that product/solution it went back to what was open before. That is how it should work, they broke it in VS2010. So all the prior VS users searching for the answer - there is none - technology continues to regress.
You can create custom shortcuts in VS under Tools > options > Environment > Keyboard.
makes it super easy to reopen the start page.
Here is my setup if you get confused
custom start page shortcut
In VS 2022 it's in Tools->Option->Environment->General->On Startup
Screenshot
I only noticed this last night, as I have not used the toolbox on this particular project for some time. Suddenly, all my Telerik controls, previously on their own tab, were missing, and this mysterious, empty tab #13119 was there. I added a new tab for Telerik and added all the controls, but the Telerik tab remained invisible, although the controls are still ticked to indicate that they are in the toolbox.
It seems to be a bug.
Citation from here:
Make sure you can see all of the folders on your box. We are heading to the realm of hidden files: (Under Tools --> Folder Options)
Close Visual Studio if it is open.
Go Here: C:\Users\YOUR_USER_NAME\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0\
Backup the following files in a temp folder for saftey and delete the originals.
(toolboxIndex_reset.tbd ,toolboxIndex.tbd ,toolbox_reset.tbd ,toolbox.tbd)
Restart Visual Studio and the files will be recreated. It'll take a few seconds for the toolbox to repopulate.
Maybe this helps: Toolbox Missing Controls
I get this now and again.
Try right clicking the Toolbox and select 'Reset Toolbox'