Toolbox in VS 2008

[sonia.sardana]

I have installed the VS 2008 on the windows 7. In my toolbox I have controls under HTML tag, But under General TAG - No Controls are there.
Under General Tag I have - There are no usable controls in this group. Drag an item onto this text to add it to the toolbox.

[jmcilhinney]

You are correct. There are no controls in that section.

[techgnome]

The controls displayed will also depend on the currently displayed window in the IDE... for instance, when in code view, it'll hide all the winform controls... if you have a webform open, it'll only show HTML controls. If you want to see the winform controls, then you need to have a winform open... at least that's been my experience.

-tg

[sonia.sardana]

I added Web Form , Default.aspx . Design View is Opened, Now I see Toolbox I have two tabs One HTML & other General Tab(With No Controls). Where are the other Controls - Label, Textbox , Button & So ON??

[dunfiddlin]

if you have a webform open, it'll only show HTML controls.

Got it?

[jmcilhinney]

Try right-clicking the Toolbox and selecting the Reset option because it does sound like there are some sections missing. What about in a WinForms project? Does it display all the expected sections and items then?

[sonia.sardana]

I try All the Solutions:-
1) Reseting the Toolbox.
2) Deleting all the tbd files from the App Data Folder - I delete all the tbd files then I restart VS. As the VS is opened tbd files are created again.

For the WinForms Projects also, Toolbox is not loaded??

Is their any problem with VS INSTALLATION?? Also I have installed the VS 2008 on the machine which is already having VS 2005!!!

[sonia.sardana]

OH THANK GOD, I finally get the controls into the toolbox. I uninstall the VS 2008 Completely from the machine & then install it again.

UnInstallation Steps : -
1) UnInstall VS 2008
2) Delete the Folder C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0
3)Delete the Registry Key Below:

a. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VisualStudio\ Delete 9.0

b. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VSWCU\ Delete Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Suite – ENU

c. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\VSA\ Delete 9.0

d. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\vsto runtime Setup\ Delete v9.0.21022

When I open some project sometimes I get the Warning, Package Load Failure. Package 'Microsoft.VisualStudio.Xml has failed to load properly. Please contact package vendor for assistance
.Application restart is recommended,due to possible environment corruption. Would you like to disable loading this Package in the future?You may use 'devenv/resetskippkgs' to re-enable package loading.
Can somebody tell me what this error means??? & I should go for yes or NO.