Visual Studio 2015 Blend - Toolbox - visual-studio

I recently installed Visual Studio 2015 Blend, but can't find the toolbox!
I have searched and searched, but haven't been able to locate it, and it's quite essential, so any help would be appreciated.


Try: View -> Other Windows -> Toolbox or ctrl + alt + x


Click Toolbox on the View menu. You can dock the Toolbox, and you can pin it open or set it to Auto Hide.


In the Solution Explorer Pane there should be 4 tabs (my tabs are on the bottom). Select Assets. In the Assets pane on the left are groups, click through these to discover all the controls. Be sure to expand all of the categories as many of the controls are nested.


I'm a total newbie to Visual Studio and Blend and I was looking for help to the same question. In my case the tools appeared only when in the Solution Explorer view I right-clicked Assets, chose Add >> New Item >> Visual C++ >> XAML >> Content Dialog.


I had the same question. there is no toolbox for blend and also there are no any components in Assets window.
goto : View ⇒ Edit in Visual Studio
This will open Visual Studio another application.
there is toolbox.


Design --> Show Tools
You can also type "Tool" into Quick Launch, the first result should be "Design --> Show Tools" which will do that same thing
It is a different tool box from Visual Studio
They are on the left within the Designer window. In the tool box there is an >> icon which opens all controls.


In Blend for VS 2019 and VS 2017 it is called "Assets". It is under View--> Assets Window, or ctrl + alt + x

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Visual Studio Dialog Editor Tab (called Toolbox) Gone

I am working with Visual Studio Ultimate 2013.
I would like to add controls to a dialog-box via the Dialog Editor Tab.
It usually appears in my IDE on the left side of the Resource View pane, as a small tag labeled Toolbox which I can expand by clicking on.
However, under some circumstances it simply disappears (thank you, Microsoft, for this lovely feature).
I'm not sure about the exact scenario, but it happened after I added a new dialog-box.
Can you please help me recover this?
I tried TOOLS --> Customize and TOOLS --> Options, but was unable to trace it.
Thank you.

try view -> toolbox, or Ctrl + W,X

Visual Studio 2013 Express Toolbox empty

I am trying to learn Visual Basic with the guidance of some YouTube Tutorials. They have recommended the use of Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 as it has a built in compiler. I encountered a problem where my toolbox bar on the left of my screen is empty. Does anyone know how to fix this?
http://gyazo.com/328ade3754613c971dd6d4745a0ed171 This is a link to my screenshot.

Just right click inside tools and click on "show all"

Your code may be running. Make sure to stop all processes and view the toolbox again.

On Visual Studio C++ 2012, it also happen sometimes. Try, to right click inside the Toolbox dialog and click on "Reset Toolbox" item. It should solve your problem.
See same question: How to rebuild the Visual Studio Toolbox?

What you need to do is to open your code in [Design] view. In this view you don't see the code as text, but rather as windows and buttons and so on.
Choose your favorite way to switch to the [Design] view :
A. View > Designer
B. Shift + F7
C. In the Solution Explorer window double click Form1.cs
Source:
How do I open a Visual Studio project in design view?

visual studio 2010 toolbox standard controls missing

I have created an asp.net project in visual studio 2010 ultimate edition.
I can't see Standard, Data etc toolbox tabs, I can only see Telerik and HTML controls.
I tried to reset the toolbox, tried to delete C:\Users\mypcuser\AppData\Local\Microsoft\VisualStudio\10.0\*.tbd.
I also tried devenv /ResetSkipPkgs but nothing worked for me.
Please suggest a Solution thanks!

This may help you.
In the Toolbox, select the tab where you want to add the control.
Right-click the Toolbox and select Choose Items from the shortcut menu.
The Choose Toolbox Items dialog box opens. The following illustration shows the Choose Toolbox Items dialog box.

Try to right click on the Toolbox and select "Reset Toolbox"
The common controls should appear in the Dialog Editor list along with all the MFC ones that I seem to be limited to when the problem happens.
I have this happen frequently. I don't know what causes it, but this fix always works and is fine for me since I didn't customize anything.

This will help you...
In Visual studio, go to view-toolbar-check standard and layout..
Then restart the visual studio and be sure on design page and check for toolbox..
Now the standard toolbox items will appear.. Thanks.

Just for the Future Viewer of this page
VS 2010 standard ToolBox cannot be viewed.
Mostly this is happen on a first run.
It solved the problem with Ctrl + Alt + X in your keyboard.

Split button in a tool window toolbar

i'm writing a visual studio 2010 extension and got a ToolWindow with a ToolWindowToolbar.
in my toolbar i want to add a split button that while pressing the button (left part) will show the 'open file' dialog, and when pressing the arrow (right part) will show a list of recently opened files.
i have tried several ways to no avail, can you help?

This thread from MSDN Visual Studio Extensibility Forum might help you.
"Bitmap icon does not appear on a SplitDropDown button in Visual Studio toolbar"

see solution in this discussion

How to maximize Visual Studio panels?

Is there a way to quickly maximize (and then restore) Visual Studio 2010 panels? For instance, I'd like to temporarily maximize the Output window or unit test results window. In Eclipse, I would just double-click the window tab, but in VS, this undocks the window.
The desired behavior is: double-click to maximize the window, then double-click it again to restore the panel to its original position.

Use this keyboard shortcut: Shift-Alt-Enter
It will maximize your current panel similar to Eclipse, but it will use the full screen unfortunately, not just the whole Visual Studio window. I prefer the way Eclipse does it, but this does help in Visual Studio land.

This feature has been added to Visual Studio Productivity Power Tools 2013 ("Double click to maximize windows"), which is free to download.
This new feature allows double-clicking any window tab to maximize it to full-screen mode and restore it back to its initial docked state - without having to worry about float operations or changes to your window layout.

In Visual Studio 2010, you can double-click the title bar of a given panel to put it into float mode, then use it just like any other window (maximize, Windows 7 dock, etc.). Ctrl-double-clicking it again will turn it back into a docked panel.
You can also right-click on the title bar and select Dock as Tabbed Document to display the panel in the same way the code windows are displayed.

In Visual Studio 2017, on a focused tab
Alt + -, F
Alt + Space, X (see UPDATE)
UPDATE (Windows 10)
Win + Up

From the View menu, pick Full Screen menuitem.
Note: when you select the View menu, you will notice that the shortcut for selecting Full Screen is mentioned, Shift+Alt+Enter (which was mentioned previously in the Answers).
Platform: Visual Studio Professional 2017, Version 15.5.7 on Windows 10, 64-bit

Closest the Eclipse behavior is to follow these steps:
Right-click the window title bar, select Float
Double-click the window title to maximize
Right-click the window title, select Dock
After these steps, double-clicking and Ctrl+double-clicking the window maximizes / restores itself

Here it is as a key board shortcut for commando types:
Ctrl+Tab Switch to your desired window/panel.
Alt+- Show the dock menu.
T Choose 'Dock as tabbed document'

Right click title bar, then choose 'float', it will only get that window, not the whole panel. Then double-click to maximize.
Also, the commands are
Window.Float
Window.Dock
and you can assign them keyboard shortcuts under tools\options. So for example I mapped them to Ctrl-Shift-F7 and Ctrl-Shift-F8, and then after once maximizing the Output window, henceforth if I have the output window docked, I just focus it and then a key makes it big and other puts it back, hurray.

If you have already installed Productivity Power Tools 2017 (PPT), and the double click file tab is not working or any other feature in PPT, just reset the PPT and it should work just fine after restarting visual studio 2017.

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