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  1. Apr 25th, 2013, 12:46 PM #1
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    Controls and properties have dissappeared!

    Hi everyone, I'm having this problem I can't solve. Recently I installed a program that made crash various others (Visual Studio, Office, SQL server, Acrobat reader).
    I reinstalled them all and they work great, except for Visual Basic.
    Controls and properties have dissapeared, look at the image. Everything works fine, I don't get any errors, but i cant't work either. Look that a DataGridView is selected, propierties should be shown.

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    Hope you can give me any tip.
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  2. Apr 25th, 2013, 12:58 PM #2
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    Re: Controls and properties have dissappeared!

    Try this: On the Tools menu click on Import/Export settings (or something equal, can't really remember the exact name for VS2008) and select to reset all settings. Restart VS.
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    Re: Controls and properties have dissappeared!

    Thanks, i forgot to say that i had already done that. Nothing happened.
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    Re: Controls and properties have dissappeared!

    OK, try to clearing this folder: %AppData%\Microsoft\VisualStudio\9.0
    (take a backup first)
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    Re: Controls and properties have dissappeared!

    I don't see the property grid window in that screen shot. Is it refusing to open ?
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    Re: Controls and properties have dissappeared!

    Whole system crashed! Installing everything again...

    Yes, both the property window and the control combobox over it were empty
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    Controls and properties have dissapeared
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    Re: Controls and properties have dissappeared!

    Quote Originally Posted by ultimoorejondeltarro View Post
    Whole system crashed! Installing everything again...

    Yes, both the property window and the control combobox over it were empty
    Wow....I think at this point you should consider a clean Windows re-install. This seems like an exceptional circumstance. Can't tell you when if ever I experienced installing software only to have it crash 3/4s of my OS. Who really knows what it did.
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    Re: Controls and properties have dissappeared!

    Quote Originally Posted by Niya View Post
    I don't see the property grid window in that screen shot. Is it refusing to open ?
    Lower right corner, but it's just blank.
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    Re: Controls and properties have dissappeared!

    And that toolbox tab name looks really off as well...

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    Re: Controls and properties have dissappeared!

    Quote Originally Posted by dunfiddlin View Post
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