I had an issue with Visual Studio Pro 2008 SP1 where the Controls were greyed out in the ToolBox. These are the steps I used to resolve it.
1. Try resetting the toolbox via right-click on the toolbox >> select "Reset Toolbox". Does it work?
2. Try adding controls via the following steps:
- Right Click on Toolbox
- Click "Choose Item..."
- Click ".NET Framework Components"
- Add control to your toolbox
3. Use
Verifictaion tool to verify .NET Framework 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5 on your machine.
4. Otherwise, please try:
- run devenv /ResetSettings to isolate the Settings problem
- run devenv /safemode to isolate potential 3rd party add-in issue
- run devenv /ResetSkipPkgs to see if it does the trick
Article ID: 58, Created On: 1/20/2010, Modified: 11/1/2013