'Visual Studio's Toolbox is empty
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.
Solution 1:[1]
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.
Solution 2:[2]
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.
Solution 3:[3]
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.
Solution 4:[4]
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
Solution 5:[5]
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
Solution 6:[6]
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!
Solution 7:[7]
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.
Solution 8:[8]
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.
Solution 9:[9]
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.
Solution 10:[10]
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.
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