visual basic 2008 unusable tools !!!

I have just installed visual basic 2008 but there are alot of unusable tools such as shapes. they look faint and cannot be applied to the form !!!

http://i45.tinypic.com/28mclzt.jpg

I am using windows 7 x64

Those controls are for WPF only, and you are using a windows forms project. If you want to use them, you'd need to create a new WPF project, but beware that it is quite different than windows forms.

I think you can rightclick the toolbox and uncheck 'show all' or something, so that it only shows the tools you can actually currently use.

so i cant never use shapes on windows form projects !!!

To use shapes on windows forms you need to install the VB Power Pack which can be found Here. It contains all the shapes shown above

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Originally Posted by aashish_9601

To use shapes on windows forms you need to install the VB Power Pack which can be found Here. It contains all the shapes shown above

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Or he can draw the shapes himself using GDI+ which is what I do.